By David L. Kozak
ISBN-10: 0803215754
ISBN-13: 9780803215757
Inside surprising Mountains presents clean new translations of local oral literatures of the Southwest, a zone of important and sundry cultures and languages. the gathering good points songs, tales, chants, and orations from the 4 significant language teams of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. It combines translations of recordings made within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries with a wealthy array of newly recorded and produced fabrics, testifying to the ongoing energy and creativity of latest local languages within the Southwest.
For southwestern linguistic and cultural traditions to be extra well known and favored, retranslations of older works were sorely wanted. unique translations have been frequently improper and culturally biased and made use of literary conventions that have been general to Anglo-Americans yet international to the local tribes themselves. Inside impressive Mountains corrects those flaws and celebrates the range of local languages spoken within the Southwest today.
Skillfully edited and translated by way of David L. Kozak, who bargains a wealth of editorial instruments for analyzing songs, music units, myths, tales, and chants of the Southwest, previous and current, this quantity contributes to the ongoing power and cultural complexity of the region.
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As Kenneth Hale and others (1992:35) have stated, “linguistic diversity is important not only to human intellectual life . . ” The link between language and culture is strong because the language one speaks strongly influences how one engages the world. For many Native persons language is synonymous with culture. It is thought that half of the estimated six thousand to seven thousand languages currently spoken in the world will be extinct by the year 2050 unless the deleterious processes currently at work are reversed.
63This is why. 64The person that left áno toii x, iistox hant tpaailx x, hant quih iti moii. 51Mosnipol quij tmeesom oo toc cöihiij, taax oo cöimamiistaj. 52Comcaac hantx mocat iyat cöhayacp coi mosnipol hapáh quij intipa ta imaaitoj iha. 53Hax cöititai hax taa ma x, isiiitoj taa x, tiima oo x, ziix ipxasi oiitoj coi imcánalcoj. 54Hantx cömiiha hac, mosnipol quij ziix quiisax áa quih thaa x, toc cöquiihtim iha. 55Taax ah oo cötpacta ma, intipa ta ziix ccam tiquij cmis quih itcmaaitoj iho. 56Moosni quih ptiiqui imitaasit quih tatxo x, haquix coom iha.
3The younger ones did not view the oldest son very favorably, so he just left them. 4That is the way it has been in every family. The oldest child tells the others what to do. 5The parents of the firstborn also obeyed him, but then the oldest son just up and left his family. 6The one who left in anger did not look for a safe or comfortable place; he just entered the ocean as soon as he arrived at it. 7Then the ones that remained behind all looked for him but they did not find him. 1Hizaax oo cötpacta ma, mosnipol hapáh quij xepe án com ano tiih x, toc cöquiih iha.
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