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LISTENING TO THE ELDER BROTHERS: ANIMALS, AGENTS, AND POSTHUMANISM IN NATIVE VERSUS NON-NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS AND WORLDVIEWS.

Contrasting with much of Western discourse, Native American myths frequently ascribe world-creating deeds to non-human animals. Further, Native American stories display a remarkable slippage between the worlds of the human and non-human animals, a slippage that continues into worldview, rituals, and...

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Published in:Folklore (14060957) Vol. 77; pp. 159 - 181
Main Author: Thompson, Tok
Format: Article
Published: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 2019
Subjects:
Posthumanism
Native Americans
Myth
Intellectual life
Animal development
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