Far North Tales: Stories from the Peoples of the Arctic Circle (World Folklore Series) - Hardcover

Marshall, Bonnie; Deusen, Kira Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591587611 ISBN 13: 9781591587613

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2011

Synopsis

This collection of tales represents and preserves the oral heritage of Arctic and Subarctic ethnic groups, so that their stories are no longer in danger of becoming lost to future generations.

· More than 30 tales from the Arctic and Subarctic regions of Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada

· Brief cultural histories of the ethnic groups Inuit, Saami, Yupik, Siberian and northern European Russian, Dene, Innu, and Alaskan Inupiat

· Photographs contributed by Canadian photographer Paul Northcott, teacher Joyce Hill, St. Petersburg's Zina Sergeevna Nikitina, and the Department of Russian Folklore at Moscow State University

· A glossary of terms used in the stories from various Arctic languages

· An index of stories, cultures, and cultural objects, historical events, folktale characters, festivals and celebrations, beliefs and traditions, and more

About this title

Book Description:

From time immemorial, stories have conveyed what matters most to human cultures. Sadly, many tales from indigenous groups of the far north (Arctic and Subarctic) are now disappearing with diminishing and/or assimilating indigenous populations. This is especially true of Siberian groups. This work translates the tales of Arctic cultures and makes them available to storytellers, folklorists, libraries and students.

About the Author:

Bonnie C. Marshall, PhD, prize-winning author, teacher, storyteller, translator, and folklorist, is a museum teacher at the New Hampshire Historical Society's Museum of New Hampshire History, where she presents programs in the museum and throughout the state.

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1591587611
• ISBN 13: 9781591587613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352