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Series
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes volume Volume 42
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of...
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