Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology by Ralph Maud

Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology

Ralph Maud

176 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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It has been well known since Marius Barbeau's review of the first edition of Franz Boas's Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boas's alleged "translations" of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, ...

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