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Author(s): J. P. Harrington (editor); Thomas C. Blackburn (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780520342651, 0520342658
Edition: Reprint 2019
File Details: PDF, 23.32 MB
Year: 2020
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0520040880

ISBN 13:  978-0520040885

Author:  Thomas C. Blackburn

As Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside in The Journal of California Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (WINTER 1975), pp. 241-244:A child born in December is “like a baby in an ecstatic condition, but he leaves this condition” (p. 102). The Chumash, reduced by the 20th century from one of the richest and most populous groups in California to a pitiful remnant, had almost lost their strage and ecstatic mental world by the time John Peabody Harrington set out to collect what was still remembered of their language and oral literature. Working with a handful of ancient informants, Harrington recorded all he could–then, in bitter rejection of the world, kept it hidden and unpublished. After his death there began a great quest for his scattered notes, and these notes are now being published at last. Thomas Blackburn, among the first and most assiduous of the seekers through Harrington’s materials, has published her the main body of oral literature that Harrington collected from the Chumash of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Blackburn has done much more: he has added to the 111 stories a commentary and analysis, almost book-length in its own right, and a glossary of the Chumash and Californian-Spanish terms that Harrington was prone to leave untranslated in the texts.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Assumption of Unpredictability

  2. Assumption of Inevitable and Inherent Inequality

  3. Assumption of Affectability

  4. Assumption of Entropy

  5. Assumption of Mutability and Spatial Proximity

  6. Assumption of a Closed and Finite Universe

  7. Assumption of a Dynamic Equilibrium of Oppositions

  8. Assumption of Centricity

  9. Knowledge

  10. Age and Seniority

  11. Prudence

  12. Self-Constraint

  13. Moderation

  14. Reciprocity

  15. Honesty

  16. Industriousness

  17. Dependability and Responsibility

  18. Self-Assertion and Self-Respect

  19. Pragmatism

  20. Etiquette

  21. Language Distortion, Inversion, and Fantasy

Part II: Narratives

A. The Three Worlds

  1. The Three Worlds

  2. The Sky People

  3. The NunaSiS

  4. The Sea People

  5. The Flood

  6. The Making of Man

  7. The Origin of Death

  8. Elements

  9. The Sun

  10. The Soul

  11. Reincarnation

  12. The Soul’s Journey to Similaqsa

  13. Astrology

  14. Animals

B. Old Woman Momoy

  1. Six?usus and Sumiwowo (I)

  2. Six?usus and Sumiwowo (II)

  3. Six?usus and Sumiwowo (III)

  4. Momoy’s Grandson (I)

  5. Momoy’s Grandson (II)

  6. Momoy and the TupnekC

C. Coyote’s Life and Times

  1. Coyote and Lizard

  2. Coyote’s Color

  3. Coyote and SloTw’s Daughter

  4. Coyote’s Search

  5. Coyote Visits SimilaqSa

  6. Coyote Rescues Xelex

  7. Coyote Visits the ?Elye?wun

  8. The Island Girls

  9. Coyote Visits the Sky

  10. Coyote and Centipede

  11. Coyote and his Sons

  12. Coyote and Qaq

  13. Coyote and Bat (I)

  14. Coyote and Bat (II)

  15. Coyote and Roadrunner

  16. Coyote and the Children

  17. Coyote and Po?xono

  18. Coyote Goes to War

  19. Coyote and the Sopo

  20. Coyote and Buzzard

  21. Coyote’s Dream

  22. Coyote and Qo?loy

  23. Coyote’s Song

  24. Coyote at Ventura

  25. Coyote and Toad

  26. Coyote and Quail

  27. Coyote and Lark

  28. Coyote and QiSqiS

  29. Coyote and Woodpecker

  30. The Coyotes and the Beetle

D. Still More Myths

  1. The Story of ?AxiwaliC

  2. The Story of ?Anucwa

  3. The Ciq?neq?S Myth

  4. The Dog Girl

  5. The Story of Siqneqs

  6. The Abandoned Wife

  7. The Boys Who Turned to Geese

  8. Thunder Makes Zaca Lake

  9. The Man Who Went to Similaqsa

  10. The Slighted Princess

  11. Gain Is All

  12. The Boy and the Serpent

  13. The Serpent Woman

  14. The Sea Serpent

  15. The Old Woman and the Lame Devil

  16. Yowoyow and the Boy

E. Shamans and Other Phenomena

  1. Bear Shamans

  2. Bear Doctors

  3. Wiyaxamsu and his Brother

  4. The Old Woman and the Bear

  5. Silinaxuwit

  6. The ?AtiSwtn of Juan Moynal

  7. The Curing of Juan Moynal

  8. Sapakay and Cosme

  9. The Death of Sapakay

  10. The Rejected Suitor

  11. Stopping the Rain at Tejon

  12. The Two Sorcerers at Tejon

  13. The Great Famine

  14. Enchanting Trees

  15. A Pact with the Devil

  16. Buzzard Eggs

  17. Vulture Stones

  18. A Test of Power

  19. Joaquin Ayala’s Daughter

  20. The Little Girl in Zaca Lake

  21. Vicenta’s Sons

  22. The Island Fisherman

  23. Martina Sings People Home

  24. Ramon Ayala

  25. The Old Men in the Spring

  26. The Italian Fisherman

  27. The Two ?Antap

  28. Tomas Meets the Devil

  29. Tomas and the Old Woman

  30. Meeting the Devil at Santa Ynez

  31. The Coyote Imitates People

  32. The Black Dog at Santa Ynez

  33. Spirit Lights

  34. Seeing People Who Aren’t There

  35. Two Men Fly at Santa Ynez

  36. ?Iwhinmu?u Mountain

  37. Maria’s Grandfather

  38. Dog’s Tears

F. Good Stories Retold

  1. Coyote and Pinacate

  2. Coyote and Fox

  3. Coyote and Skunk

  4. Rabbit and Coyote

  5. Coyote’s Stone Stew

  6. Heron and Fox

  7. The Story of a Cat

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