The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. / Volume XIV, : Northwest California Linguistics / / ed. by Victor Golla, Sean O'Neill.

This volume contains Sapir's full edition of Hupa texts, with complete linguistic and textual annotations. The texts are accompanied by an analytic lexicon - a complete inventory of all stems and derivational bases contained in the corpus - and a detailed ethnographic glossary.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:The Collected Works of Edward Sapir ; Volume XIV
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Frontispiece
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Key to the Orthography
  • Alphabetical Order
  • I. CEREMONIES
  • 1. The White Deerskin Dance (Sam Brown)
  • 2. The Jump Dance (Sam Brown)
  • 3. The Origin of the Jump Dance (Mary Marshall)
  • 4. The Origin of the Misq’id Jump Dance (Jake Hostler)
  • 5. The Acorn Feast (Sam Brown)
  • 6. The First Salmon Ceremony (John Shoemaker)
  • 7. The Origin of the First Salmon Ceremony (John Shoemaker)
  • 8. Bathing the Rain Rock at Sugar Bowl (John Shoemaker)
  • 9. Formula for Bathing the Rain Rock (John Shoemaker)
  • 10. The Flower Dance (Sam Brown)
  • 11. The Origin of the Flower Dance (Sam Brown)
  • 12. The Brush Dance (Sam Brown)
  • II. TRADITIONAL LIFE
  • 13. How to Treat Babies (Emma Frank)
  • 14. Traditional Standards of Beauty (Emma Frank)
  • 15. Tattooing (Sam Brown)
  • 16. Rules of Etiquette (Emma Frank)
  • 17. How to Ensure a Long Life (Sam Brown)
  • 18. Insults and Bad Behavior (Sam Brown)
  • 19. A Jump Dance Sermon (Sam Brown)
  • 20. When there is a Death (Sam Brown)
  • 21. How to Gather and Prepare Acorns (Sam Brown)
  • 22. How Basketry Roots are Gathered and Baskets Woven (Sam Brown)
  • 23. How to Handle Firewood in the Old-Fashioned Way (Emma Frank)
  • III. DOCTORING AND THE SPIRIT WORLD
  • 24. How I Became a Doctor (Emma Frank)
  • 25. Emma Frank’s Method of Doctoring (Emma Frank)
  • 26. How Silis Became a Doctor (Sam Brown)
  • 27. Silis’ Vision of Hell (Sam Brown)
  • 28. Silis Loses and Finds her Pipe (Sam Brown)
  • 29. The Kick Dance (Sam Brown)
  • 30. How I Became Fond of Kick Dancing (Sam Brown)
  • 31. K’yiłwe· Sickness is Taken Out (Sam Brown)
  • 32. Hunting Magic and Prayers for Deer (Sam Brown)
  • 33. A Vision of Sam Brown’s (Sam Brown)
  • 34. Power Over the Grizzly Bear (Sam Brown)
  • 35. Training for Striking Fear into the Grizzly Bear (Sam Brown)
  • 36. The Afterworld (Sam Brown)
  • IV. MEDICINE FORMULAS
  • Introductory Note
  • 37. To Cure Vomit and Passing of Blood (Emma Frank)
  • 38. For Sickness (Jake Hostler)
  • 39. For a Menstruating Woman to Shorten her Period (Emma Frank)
  • 40. Pronounced over a Child to make him Wealthy and Brave (Emma Frank)
  • 41. To Purify one who has Handled a Corpse (John Shoemaker)
  • 42. To Induce Forgiveness (Mary Marshall)
  • 43. For War (Sam Brown)
  • 44. The Ugly Dog, a Medicine Formula for Love (John Shoemaker)
  • 45. A Woman’s Love Medicine for Getting a Man (Emma Frank)
  • 46. A Man’s Love Medicine (Emma Frank)
  • 47. For a Man who Desires Wealth and Success in Love (John Shoemaker)
  • 48. For Wealth (John Shoemaker)
  • 49. The Dawn Maiden (Sam Brown)
  • 50. Big Dentalia Comes to the Redwood People (Mary Marshall)
  • V. PRAYERS
  • Introductory Note
  • 51. Prayer for Good Luck (Emma Frank)
  • 52. Prayer to the Sun (Emma Frank)
  • 53. Prayer in Going Over the Trails in the Mountains (Emma Frank)
  • 54. Prayer to the Acorn Feast Ground of Hostler Ranch (Sam Brown)
  • 55. Prayer to Yimantiwʔwinyay’s Resting Place (Sam Brown)
  • 56. A Night Prayer (John Shoemaker)
  • VI. MYTHS AND TALES
  • 57. Salmon’s Grandmother (Sam Brown)
  • 58. Salmon’s Grandmother and Timber Robin (Sam Brown)
  • 59. Water Dog and Acorn Worm (Sam Brown)
  • 60. Iris and Panther (Oscar Brown)
  • 61. Coyote and Frog (Emma Frank)
  • 62. Three Tales of Little Woodpecker (Emma Frank)
  • 63. Salmon-Trout is Doctored by Bluejay and Hummingbird (Jake Hostler)
  • 64. A Story of the South Wind (Sam Brown)
  • 65. The Lake Whale (Sam Brown)
  • 66. The Rival Wives (Mary Marshall)
  • 67. The Two Brothers (John Shoemaker)
  • 68. The One who Established a Medicine at Miyimida q’id, and his Grandmother (Emma Frank)
  • 69. The Hated Suitor (Jake Hostler)
  • VII. LEGENDS AND TRADITIONAL HISTORY
  • 70. How Ear Aches Started at Meʔdildiŋ (Sam Brown)
  • 71. The Acorn Provider Saves Weitchpec (Sam Brown)
  • 72. Two Young Men Do Indian Deviling (Jake Hostler)
  • 73. The Village that Blasphemed (Sam Brown)
  • 74. How a Man was Destroyed at New River (Sam Brown)
  • 75. How a Tattooed-Face Stole a Woman (John Shoemaker)
  • 76. The Chimariko Attack a Hupa Village (Sam Brown)
  • 77. A War Between the Hupa and Yurok (Sam Brown)
  • LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 1.1. - 15.12.
  • LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 15.13. - 36.4.
  • LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 36.5. - 63.18.
  • LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 63.19. - 77.132.
  • ANALYTIC LEXICON
  • Introductory Note
  • Element List (with Sean O’Neill). Part I
  • Element List (with Sean O’Neill). Part II
  • Morphological Outline
  • ETHNOGRAPHIC LEXICON
  • Introductory Note
  • General Glossary. Part I
  • General Glossary. Part II
  • Kinship Terminology
  • Yurok Texts (edited by Howard Berman)
  • Chimariko Linguistic Material (edited by Howard Berman)
  • Appendix: Reports on Sapir's Northwest California Work Letters from the field to A. L. Kroeber
  • Letters to J.P. Harrington regarding work on Chimariko
  • An Expedition to Ancient America
  • A Summary Report of Field Work among the Hupa, Summer 1927
  • Reminiscences about Edward Sapir (Fang-Kuei Li)
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter