"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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Author / Creator: Krupat, Arnold (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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