The Anthropology of Northwest Coast Oral Traditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2430985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Thom (0000-0003-0439-5153, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arctic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-6939 • E-ISSN: 1933-8139 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/arc.2011.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2142664207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 53 |
This paper is a critical history of anthropological research on the oral traditions of the cultures of the Northwest Coast of North America, where much influential work has been done using the vast text collections compiled by Boas and his collaborators. The paper reviews the development and legacy of the Boas collection and analyses of Northwest Coast texts. In addition the paper analyzes responses to this body of work by functionalists who have looked to Northwest Coast myth as a way of understanding property, and responses by structuralists who have sought ways of understanding underlying meanings in these traditions. Recent contributions have focused on a more literary analysis of oral traditions. Finally, suggestions are made as to some future avenues for future study of Northwest Coast oral traditions
Archaeology · Epistemology · Geography · Mythology · Oral history · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philippine History and Culture · Classics · History · Philosophy
The Coast Salish of British Columbia.
Salishan and the Northwest
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Plunder or Harmony? On Merging European and Native Views of Early Contact
Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory
Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River
'We Shall Drink from the Stream and So Shall You'
The Immigrant or "Outsider" Experience as Metaphor for Becoming an Educated Person in the Modern World
The Organization of Thought in Lushootseed (Puget Salish) Literature
In Honor of Eyak
The Struggle for Survival
Haida Monumental Art
Notes on Swanton Numbers 80 and 81
Recovering the Word
Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist text tradition
Notes on the Snanaimuq
Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors. Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales
The Unconscious in Culture
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Being in Being
On the Translation of Native American Literatures
The Curtain within
The Rival Whalers, a Nitinat Story (Nootka Text with Translation and Grammatical Analysis)
General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics
The Grizzly Gave Them the Song
The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion
The Mythological Basis for Attitudes toward Animals among Salish-Speaking Indians
Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II
The Swai'xwe Myth of the Middle Fraser River
Mythology of Puget Sound
North American Indian Anthropology
The Heiltsuks
When the Mountain Dwarfs Danced
Women in Ethnography
Whales, Chiefs, and Giants
In vain I tried to tell you
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts
La geste d'Asdiwal
Valley of the Spirits
Volksgeist as Method and Ethnic
Lushootseed Texts
Stylistic Stratification in an Oral Tradition
Coming to Shore
The Henry Tate-Franz Boas collaboration on Tsimshian mythology
Asdiwal crumbles
La Geste du Chien d'Asdiwal
North America
Recent Ethnology of the Northwest Coast
The 'Middle Fraser' and 'Foothill' Cultures
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2013 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |