Magic Words: From the Ancient Oral Tradition of the Inuit
Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies andlanguages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. Itbegan as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legendpassed from generation to generation. In translation it grew from myth to poem.The text comes from expedition notes recorded by Danish explorer KnudRasmussen in 1921. Edward Field got a copy from the Harvard Library andtranslated it into English.
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Weitere Autoren: Field, Edward (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-9832904-6-9
- EAN: 9780983290469
- Produktnummer: 14324170
- Verlag: Vanita Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 24 S.
- Masse: H28.1 cm x B22.2 cm x D0.9 cm 413 g
- Gewicht: 413
- Sonstiges: Ab 4 - 7 J.
Über den Autor
Unknown author. The translator is Edward Field. In the 1960s he was asked totranslate a book of Inuit Eskimo poems for a teaching program. He received manyhonors for his poetry and toured the country reading at universities as well as TheLibrary of Congress. He lives in New York City with his blind partner with whom hehas collaborated on several novels under their pseudonym Bruce Elliot.
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