Dover Publications, 2005. — 384 p. This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths,...
Translated by Peter Frost — University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 570 p. The Bungling Host motif appears in countless indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work Daniel Clément has gathered nearly four hundred North American variants of the story to examine how myths acquire meaning for their indigenous users and explores how seemingly absurd...
ABC-CLIO, 2002. — 342 p. — (Edited and with an Introduction by Karl Kroeber). Native American mythology shows vestiges of religious concepts already old when the Egyptians evolved their form of worship. This volume offers an unusual collection of myths from two Native American cultures, the Wintu and Yana, recorded and translated in the 1880s by Jeremiah Curtin, one of the...
The mythology of North America is a cultural treasure house, but many of these myths and legends are hidden away in various old and rare books. It would be difficult for the average person to track down and collect this material because the rarity of some of these books makes them hard to find and expensive. So this vast body of wisdom lies out of reach of most people… until...
Teach Yourself Books, 2001. — 129 p. — ISBN: 0-658-02124-9. Myths are symbolic stories that have evolved through oral tradition, and they have guided and inspired us for many years. Follow these lively retellings of popular and significant Native American myths and discover how to unlock their hidden meanings so that they can be better understood. - Explore and enjoy the subtle...
Edited with an introduction by Karl W. Luckert — Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. — VI, 146 p. Coyote is easily the most popular character in the stories of Indian tribes from Canada to Mexico. This volume contains seventeen coyote tales collected and translated by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., more than half a century ago. The original Navajo...
University of British Columbia Press, 1974. — 162 p. These legends, translated by Chief Kenneth Harris, tell of the origin of the Native people who live in the region between the Skeena and Nass rivers of British Columbia. Other stories tell of occurrences particularly significant in the 'history' of the people - the origins of the 'Killer Whale' and 'Thunderbird Twtjea-adku,'...
Utah State University Press / University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 208 p. Retelling Trickster in Naapi’s Language is an examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi. Through in-depth linguistic analysis, Nimachia Howe reinterprets the earliest...
Utah State University Press / University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 208 p. Retelling Trickster in Naapi’s Language is an examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi. Through in-depth linguistic analysis, Nimachia Howe reinterprets the earliest...
August House, 1987. — 265 pp. — (American Folklore Series). — ISBN: 0-87483-038-9. Lankford's comprehensive anthology is a testament to his homage of native Americans and their history. This book includes 131 legends from the American Southeast accompanied by maps, illustrations and discussions of the cultures that generated them.
Harper Perennial, 1990. — 168 p. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool - Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey - often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites - he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire... and death. Barry Lopez - National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams...
Rzeczpospolita S.A., 2008. — 125 s. — ISBN: 978-83-89840-16-5. "Indianie Ameryki Północnej(...)" przekazuje wiedzę nie tylko o wierzeniach, ale również o zasadach, które kierują życiem rdzennych mieszkańców Dzikiego Zachodu. Obrazuje nam też jak bardzo wywróciliśmy ich świat do góry nogami. My — czyli biali ludzie, najeźdźcy, bowiem odebraliśmy im ich ziemię i staraliśmy się...
New York: Dover Publications, 1996. — 608 p. This Dover edition, first published in 1995, is an unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., in 1900, as part of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98: in Two...
Retold and Annotated by Evan T. Pritchard. — Woodstock, Vermont: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2005. — lxiv+204 p. — (SkyLight Illuminations). — ISBN: 1-59473-112-8. Native American stories of the sacred are intended for more than entertainment: they are teaching tales containing elegantly simple illustrations of time-honored truths. From tales of Creation to “Why?” stories that...
McFarland, 2014. — 232 p. Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background information is given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids. The reader may thus experience the stories...
Dover Publications, 2003. — 208 p. In the late 1920s, an elderly Navaho leader, anxious to preserve the myths of his people before they were lost in the tide of modern civilization, asked Aileen O'Bryan to record the tales he told her and to publish them in a book. The storyteller was Sandoval, Hastin Tlo'tsi hee (or Old Man Buffalo Grass), the first of the four chiefs of the...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 406 p. The publication of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by the American Folk-Lore Society in 1938 illustrated the richness of the material on the tribes of the Southwest. Still a treasure-house of information, it appears with a new introduction and for the first time in paperback. Morris Edward Opler based his pioneering work on the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 402 p. Although the canon of nineteenth-century Native American writers represents rich literary expression, it derives generally from a New England perspective. Equally rich and rare poetry, songs, and storytelling were produced farther west by Indians residing on the Southern Plains. When Dream Bear Sings is a multidisciplinary, diversified,...
Sunstone Press, 2019. — 62 p. Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place and culture altered from that of today. These myths...
Sunstone Press, 2019. — 62 p. Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place and culture altered from that of today. These myths...
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009. — 97 p. — (Myths of the World). — ISBN: 0761442170. These timeless tales of gods and heroes give us a window into the beliefs, values, and practices of people who lived long ago. They can make us think about the BIG QUESTIONS that have confronted humankind down through the ages: questions about human nature, the meaning of life, and what...
Enslow Publishers, 2001. - 129 pages. ISBN: 0766014096
Mesoamerica is a geographical area that covers most of what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and other parts of Central America. Even though the early Mesoamerican cultures from which the Mayas and Aztecs emerged were different in many ways, they encountered one another often because of trade, migration, and conquest. As a...
HAU Books, 2017. — 306 p. Not since Clifford Geertz’s "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner’s The Fire of the Jaguar . His reanalysis of the famous myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil was anticipated as an exemplar of a new, dynamic, materialist, action-oriented...
Series: Mythology (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), 2001. — 129 p. — ISBN: 0-7660-1559-9. The Inuit world was filled with powerful spirits capable of vengeful and hostile acts toward people. But ordinary people could speak to the spirits and ask for help by using magical words.
University of Arizona Press, 2004. — 352 p. Best known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century unadulterated by the influence of Christian missionaries. Among the Huichol, reciting myths and performing rituals pleases the ancestors and helps maintain a world in which...
Переводчик В.В. Кирющенко. — СПб.: Евразия, 1999. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0028-X. В настоящем издании представлен сакральный миф о трикстере североамериканских индейцев, сопровождаемый обширным культурологическим анализом известного американского антрополога Пола Радина, исследованием Карла Кереньи, посвящённым сравнению образа трикстера в архаической и античной мифологии, и...
Переводчик В.В. Кирющенко. — СПб.: Евразия, 1999. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0028-X. В настоящем издании представлен сакральный миф о трикстере североамериканских индейцев, сопровождаемый обширным культурологическим анализом известного американского антрополога Пола Радина, исследованием Карла Кереньи, посвящённым сравнению образа трикстера в архаической и античной мифологии, и...
Перевод с английского Кирющенко В.В. — СПб.: Евразия, 1999. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0028-X. В настоящем издании представлен сакральный миф о трикстере североамериканских индейцев, сопровождаемый обширным культурологическим анализом известного американского антрополога Пола Радина, исследованием Карла Кереньи, посвященным сравнению образа трикстера в архаической и античной...
Переводчик: В. В. Кирющенко. — М.: Альма Матер, 2023. — 250 с. — (Методы антропологии). В настоящем издании представлены мифы о трикстере североамериканских индейцев племени виннебаго, в середине XX в. опубликованные и глубоко проанализированные известным антропологом Полом Радиным (1883-1959). Исследование Радина сопровождается развернутыми и научно значимыми для своего...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 336 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-2364-7
Льюис Спенс, знаменитый антрополог и фольклорист, автор широко известной книги "Атлантида. История исчезнувшей цивилизации", рассказывает о верованиях племен, живших на огромной территории Северной Америки: ирокезов, алгонкинов, сиу и многих других. Мифы и легенды этих народов открывают своеобразный мир духов, которые могут...
Киев, 2014. — 382 с. : ил. — (Месоамерика. Источники. История. Человек). — ISBN 978-617-7085-11-8. Книга содержит русские переводы ранних записей мифов и легенд индейцев Центральной Мексики: «Легенды о Солнцах» 1556 г., отрывков из «Летописи Куаутитлана» 1563 г., «Всеобщей истории о событиях в Новой Испании» Б. де Саагуна (1547–75), «Сообщений» Ф. де Альвы Иштлильшочитля (ок....
М.: Фаир-Пресс, 2005. — 104 с. — ISBN: 5818309231. Автор знакомит читателя с множеством версий мифов инков о Сотворении мира, об образовании империи и о деяниях ее выдающихся правителей, исследует мифологию многочисленных этнических групп, разбросанных по территории бывшей империи инков, в том числе мифы жителей северного побережья Перу. Он подробно пересказывает некоторые...
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