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Naming the World is an ethnography of language shift among the Northern Arapaho. It focuses on the often subtle continuities and discontinuities in the society produced by the shift, as well as the diversity of community responses.

A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture.

A lively study of the tavern in medieval life and thought

A bison and a bobtailed horse race across the sky, raising a trail of dust behind them-leaving in their wake the Milky Way to forever mark their path. An unknown Arapaho teller shared this account with an ethnographer in 1893, explaining that the race determined which animal would be ridden, which would be food. Traditional American Indian oral narratives, ranging from origin stories to trickster tales and prayers, constitute part of the great...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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This volume is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language spoken primarily in Wyoming and Oklahoma. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Cowell and Moss document Arapaho's interesting features, detail strategies used by speakers of this highly polysynthetic language to form complex words, and il...