{"product_id":"new-voices-for-old-words-david-j-costa-9780803265486","title":"New Voices for Old Words: Algonquian Oral Literatures","description":"\u003ci\u003eNew Voices for Old Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of previously unpublished Algonquian oral traditions featuring historical narratives, traditional stories, and legends that were gathered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection presents them here in their original languages with new English-language translations. Accompanying essays explain the importance of the original texts and their relationships to the early researchers who gathered and, in some cases, actively influenced these texts. \u003cbr\u003e Covering the northeast United States, eastern Canada, the Great Lakes region, and the Great Plains, the Algonquian languages represented in \u003ci\u003eNew Voices for Old Words\u003c\/i\u003e include Gros Ventre, Peoria, Arapaho, Meskwaki, Munsee-Delaware, Potawatomi, and Sauk. All of these languages are either endangered or have lost their last speakers; for several of them no Native text has ever been published. This volume presents case studies in examining and applying such principles as ethnopoetics to the analysis of traditional texts in several languages of the Algic language family. These studies show how much valuable linguistic and folkloric information can be recovered from older texts, much of it information that is no longer obtainable from living sources. The result is a groundbreaking exploration of Algonquian oral traditions that are given a new voice for a new generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David J. Costa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803265484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803265486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d","brand":"David J. Costa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46292897923327,"sku":"9780803265486","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8aed109e-4b52-4cde-a09e-642311323cd1.jpg?v=1730210490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-voices-for-old-words-david-j-costa-9780803265486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}