A story as sharp as a knife

Alternate Titles

• As sharp as a knife

Description

"The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

• Translations into English
• Folklore

Series Statement

• Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ;
• v. 1

Other Editions

• A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their worldDouglas & McIntyre1999-01-01
• A story as sharp as a knifeDouglas & McIntyre1999-01-01
• A Story as Sharp as a KnifeHardcoverUniversity of Nebraska Press2000-11-01
• A Story as Sharp as a KnifePaperbackUniversity of Nebraska Press2000-11-01