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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: bungling host
    sub title: the nature of indigenous oral literature
  title info:
    title: Hôte maladroit. English
  name:
    name part: Clément, Daniel
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 543 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Bungling Host motif appears in countless indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work, Daniel Clément has gathered more than four hundred North American variants of the story to examine how myths acquire meaning for their indigenous users and explores how seemingly absurd narratives can prove to be a rich source of meaning when understood within the appropriate context. In analyzing the Bungling Host tales, Clément considers not only material culture but also social, economic and cultural life, Native knowledge of the environment and the world of plants and animals. Clément's analysis uncovers four operational modes in myth construction and clarifies the relationship between mythology and science. Ultimately he demonstrates how science may have developed out of an operational mode that already existed in the mythological mind.
  table of contents: Contents List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Caribou Takes In His Wife's Dress (Subarctic) 2. Snake Makes a Meal in the Embers (Southwest) 3. The Fire Trap (Grand Basin) 4. While Bird Sings, Bear Cooks (Northwest Coast) 5. Seal Roasts His Hands (Northwest Coast) 6. Silver Fox Digs Up Yellow Jacket Larvae with His Penis (California) 7. Wildcat Beats a Blanket (California) 8. Deer Kills Her Children and Puts Their Bones Into the Water (Southwest) 9. Wolf Transforms Two Arrowheads into Mincemeat Puddings (Southwest) 10. Badger Pushes a Stick Down His Throat and Gets Yucca-Juice (Southwest) 11. Bison Skewers His Nose (Plains) 12. White-Tailed Deer Shoots at a Red Clay Bank (Plains) 13. Man Kills Bison with His Sharpened Leg (Plains, Plateau) 14. Black-Mountain-Bear Gets Persimmons by Leaning Against a Tree (Southeast) 15. Rabbit Gathers Canes (Southeast) 16. Squirrel Slits Open His Scrotum (Plains) 17. Duck Excretes Rice (Northeast) 18. Bird Gets Salmon Eggs by Striking His Ankle (Northwest Coast) 19. Muskrat Cooks Some Ice (Northeast) 20. Woodpecker Pulls Eels Out of Trees (Subarctic) Conclusion Appendix: Bungling Host Myths Notes Bibliography.
  note: Daniel Clément ; translated by Peter Frost.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-543).
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
  subject:
    topic: Indian mythology
  subject:
    topic: Folklore
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Animals
    topic: Symbolic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Montagnais Indians
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Innu Indians
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Myth
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American
  classification: E98.F6 C6413 2018
  classification: 398.2089/97
  identifier: 9781496200877
  identifier: 149620087X
  identifier: 9781496206053
  identifier: 1496206053
  identifier: 9781496206688 (web)
  identifier: 2017052574
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180402
    record change date: 20181023093943.0
    record identifier: in00004029816