The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2013
- Category
- Cultural
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889228658
- Publish Date
- Feb 2013
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Henry W. Tate (d. 1914) was a Tsimshian informant to ethnographer Franz Boas. Tate first wrote these stories in English before giving Boas the Tsimshian equivalent during the decade of 1903-1913. Boas published the stories in the much-consulted classic of ethnology, Tsimshian Mythology, in 1916. Through Ralph Maud’s selection of the best of Tate’s original stories, we can see the actual creative writer behind Boas’ revised texts, now preserved much closer to the way Tate originally intended.
About the author
Ralph Maud is Emeritus Professor of English and Associate of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He founded the Charles Olson Literary Society. He is the author of Charles Olson Reading (1996) and the editor of The Selected Letters of Charles Olson (2000.) He has edited much of Dylan Thomas’s work, including The Notebook Poems 1930–1934 and The Broadcasts, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934–1953 and Under Milk Wood. Maud is also the editor of The Salish People: Volumes I, II, III & IV by pioneer ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout. He has been a contributing editor to Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles, The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbours by Oliver Wells, and is the author of A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, and The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories—a collection of Henry W. Tate’s stories in Tate’s original English, which grew out of his survey of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian work, published as an article: “The Henry Tate-Franz Boas Collaboration on Tsimshian Mythology” in American Ethnologist. Maud’s subsequently published book, Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology, expands further on the relationship between Henry Tate and Franz Boas.
Other titles by Ralph Maud
A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend ebook
The Salish People: Volume IV
The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island
The Salish People: Volume II
The Salish People volume III
After Completion
The Later Letters
Muthologos
Lectures and Interviews
Charles Olson at the Harbor
Poet to Publisher
Charles Olson's Correspondence with Donald Allen
Where Have the Old Words Got Me?
Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems
Transmission Difficulties
Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology