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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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Pieces of White Shell

by Terry Temp Williams

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Publisher Comments:

This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well. To know the oral tradition of Native American people is to feel the sensitivity and sensuality of language in its clearest motion and light, and this Williams has achieved in her appreciation of that tradition.Simon Ortiz "Pieces of White Shell" is vibrantfull of risk, gentleness, wonder, and humility.Barry Lopez This book is both informative and enormously evocative. Exposition and description are powerfully reinforced by recurrent passages in the mode of poetry and drama.Brewster Ghiselin

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Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780826309693
Author:
Brycelea, Clifford
Author:
Brycelea, Clifford
Author:
Williams, Terry Tempest
Publisher:
University of New Mexico Press
Location:
Albuquerque :
Subject:
Native American Studies
Subject:
Indians of north america
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
Navajo Indians
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Copyright:
c198
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 159-162.
Series Volume:
99-481, pt. 2
Publication Date:
May 1987
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
7.98x5.38x.46 in. .50 lbs.
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