Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts

by William M. Clements

Book Overview

For more than four centuries, Europeans and Euroamericans have been making written records of the spoken words of American Indians. While some commentators have assumed that these records provide absolutely reliable information about the nature of Native American oral expression, even its esthetic qualities, others have dismissed them as inherently unreliable. In Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts , William Clements offers a comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516596
• ISBN13: 9780816516599
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"