Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. TABLES IX
4. Introduction 5
5. Ethnological Note 15
6. Orthographic Note 24
7. Part One. Unsuspected Devices and Designs
8. 1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology 35
9. 2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma 65
10. Part Two: Breakthrough to Performance
11. 3 Breakthrough into Performance 79
12. 4 Louis Simpson's “The Deserted Boy” 142
13. 5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's “At'unaqa” 184
14. 6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited 200
15. Part Three: Titles, Names, and Natures
16. 7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook 263
17. 8 The “Wife” Who “Goes Out” Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth 274
18. 9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative 309
19. 10 Reading Clackamas Texts 342
20. Epilog 382
21. Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts 385
22. Bibliography 386
23. Index 399
24. Backmatter 403