Leo Joachim Frachtenberg

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Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua)

كانت فتاة تعيش في «كويتك»، وكانت كسولة لا تفعل شيئاً، وعندما نضجت حبسها أهلها خمسة أيام.. كان عندها أخ صغير يجلب لها الماء سِرّاً.. بدأ الشعر ينمو على كتفيها وذراعيها.. وبدأت أسنانها تنمو.. حتى أصبحت دُباً، ثم قالت لأخيها: «اجلس هنا، لن أؤذيك، سأقتل كل أهلي!». حكايات هذه المجموعة يرويها أفراد قبيلة «الكوز» من الهنود الحمر الذين يعيشون جنوب غرب ولاية أريغون الأمريكية، وهي، مثل غيرها من حكايات الأمم الشعبية، تحاول تفسير ظواهر الكون وأسرار كائناته، وتسعى، خيالياً، لدحر الأشرار، وإحقاق العدل والحرية والسعادة والجمال في واقع قاس وشحيح ومشوّه.

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In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Levi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the scholarship that has formed around it. Not only does he put forth a new and more realistic interpretation of Omaha sociology specifically, but in so doing he provides a reinterpretation of an aspect of anthropological theory. This edition includes a new introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie.

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