Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography: A Navaho Autobiography - Softcover

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Left Handed

 
9780803279582: Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography: A Navaho Autobiography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803279582 ISBN 13: 9780803279582
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail," of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account turns to life in the open: nomadic cattle-raising, farming, trading, communal enterprises, tribal dances and ceremonies, lovemaking, and marriage.
As Left Handed grows in understanding and stature, the accumulated wisdom of his people is made known to him. He learns the Navajo life founded upon principles: the necessity of honesty, foresightedness, self-discipline. The style of the narrative is almost biblical in its rhythms; but biblical, too, in many respects, is the traditional way of life it recounts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Introducing this new edition is Luci Tapahonso, a professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of A Breeze Swept Through and Saanii Dahataal—The Women Are Singing: Poems and Stories.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803279582
ISBN 13 
9780803279582
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
378
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9780803250543: Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: Navajo Autobiography (Bison Book)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0803250541 ISBN 13:  9780803250543
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1967
Softcover