Author: Jacobs, Melville
Title: The Content and Style of an Oral Literature: Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales
Description: New York, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1959. orig.wrappers. 25x18cm, viii,285 pp, Series: Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, Nr. 26.. Minor rubbing. Name inked to flyleaf. Title inked to spine. VG. ¶ Contents: Analyses of Eight Stories: Coyote & Skunk: He Tied His Musk Sac; Badger & Coyote Were Neighbors; Fire & His Son's Son; Grizzly & Black Bear Ran Away with the Two Girls; Grizzly Woman Killed People; Flint & His Son' s Son; Awl & Her Son's Son; The Literature as a Whole; Features & Content: Empases in Content; Relationships; Personalities: Male Personality Traits; Female Personality Traits; Children; Humor; The Good; World View; Songs; Variability in Play Structures; Stylized Devices & Motifs; Terse Delineation & Speedy Action.

Keywords: Native American Folklore, American Indians, Oral Literature, Ethnography, Clackamas Chinook, Ethnology, Folk Tales Myths, Anthropology, Myth Mythology