作品情報

声で受け継がれた物語を、書物として残す。

ツリンギットの語りを文字化し、英語訳と詳細な注釈を添えて提示することで、口承文化の豊かさを広く伝える。学術的な価値と共同体の記憶の両方を担う一冊。

書籍情報

出版社

Univ of Washington Pr

発売日

1991-04-01

ページ数

606ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

22.96 x 15.44 x 3.89 cm

ISBN-13

9780295968506

ISBN-10

0295968508

価格

9195 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Nonfiction/Education/Reference

Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. There are thirty-two speeches by twenty-one Tlingit elders. Most were taped between 1968 and 1988, but two speeches were recorded on wax cylinders by the Harriman Expedition in Sitka in 1899, and are the oldest known sound recordings of Tlingit. The book is of importance both to native and non-native readers alike. For those of Native American heritage it articulates concepts understood and practiced by elders but difficult for them to explain, and often bewildering to younger generations. For people around the world interested in Northwest Coast culture, it offers new insights into a traditional world view and the classics of Tlingit oral literature. Careful attention is given to transcription, translation, and annotation by the collaboration of Nora Marks Dauenhauer, a native speaker of Tlingit and a published poet, with a degree in anthropology, and her husband Richard Dauenhauer, a translator of European poetry and a former poet laureate of Alaska, with a Ph. D. in comparative literature.

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (1927-2017) was a Tlingit author, poet, and scholar. She was a member of the Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan and the Shaka Hít (Canoe Prow House) and Tlingit was her first language. She studied anthropology at Alaska Methodist (now Pacific) University in Anchorage. She authored numerous collections of poetry and prose and served as writer laureate of Alaska from 2012-2014. Richard Dauenhauer (1942-2014) was a poet, linguist, and scholar of Tlingit culture. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition . He was a professor of literature at Alaska Methodist University and later of Alaska Native languages and culture at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.

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