{"product_id":"native-american-oral-traditions-1","title":"Native American Oral Traditions","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis  collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of  collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars  in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of  intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with  commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning  that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The  texts studied all come from the American West but include a rich variety  of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the  Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                This presentation of jointly authored work is timely: it addresses  increasing interest in, calls for, and movement toward reflexivity in  the relationships between scholars and the Native communities they  study, and it responds to the renewed commitment in those communities to  asserting more control over representations of their traditions.  Although Native and academic communities have long tried to work  together in the study of culture and literature, the relationship has  been awkward and imbalanced toward the academics. In many cases, the  contributions of Native assistants, informants, translators, and field  workers to the work of professional ethnographers has been inadequately  credited, ignored, or only recently uncovered. Native Americans usually  have not participated in planning and writing such projects. Native  American Oral Traditions provides models for overcoming such obstacles  to interpreting and understanding Native oral literature in relation to  the communities and cultures from which it comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Larry Evers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54291347570980,"sku":"9780874214161","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/native-american-oral-traditions-1","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}