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...
| Publicado en: | Folklore (14060957) Vol. 77; pp. 159 - 181 |
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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
2019
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