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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. 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It stands as part of the great tradition of collaborative work flowing from Boas and Teit, in which oral literature is presented, preserved, and sensitively translated. --Journal of Anthropological Research \u003cbr\u003e A model for others interested in studying across languages and culture . . . Readers who wish a more realistic view of the Yaqui people than that provided by Carlos Castaneda will find this book of stories, songs, and photographs a credible account of Yaqui history and ritual. --Choice \u003cbr\u003e The interweaving of ethnological material, personal anecdote and visual imagery gives a reader the sense of witnessing, even participating in, both a ceremony and the life it sanctifies. --San Francisco Chronicle \u003cbr\u003e This is an important and beautifully produced book, a labor of love as well as of scholarship. --Western Folklore \u003cbr\u003e A book for scholars, aficionados of Yaqui culture, and people who just want a good read. --Journal of the Southwest \u003cbr\u003e As a study of a Native American poetic genre, it is outstanding. The collaboration of Evers, a non-Yaqui specialist in American Indian traditional literature, with Molina, a young Yaqui who speaks his people's language and performs as a deer singer in his own right, makes this a very model of what such studies can and should be. --William Bright in SAIL","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367574278417,"sku":"CIN0816509956G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816509956.jpg?v=1770373454"},{"product_id":"native-american-oral-traditions-book-larry-evers-9780874214161","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. 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