"That the people might live" : loss and renewal in Native American elegy /

"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a numbe...

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Main Author: Krupat, Arnold (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq43pw