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    ISBN: 9780889221895 | Paperback

    224 pages | Pub. Date: 19820101
    6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
    Backlist | Non-Fiction | Bisac: SOC021000
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Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed here in A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs and Native informants of the past and present are given ample consideration, making this book a comprehensive survey of myth collecting in B.C. The aim is to reveal the true extent of this neglected body of world literature, and to begin to sort out the more valuable texts from those damaged in transmission. A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend is a valuable reference tool for beginning or advanced students of anthropology, and an absorbing look at the research process itself.

“Important not for what it might tell us about Indian culture in the past, but for what these myths may tell us about our society. This book goes some way toward that goal.”
Vancouver Sun

By Ralph Maud

Ralph Maud (1928–2014) was the author of a number of books on Charles Olsen as well as the editor of a number of books on Dylan Thomas. He was also a noted ethnographer and editor of ethnographic books. Maud was a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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RALPH MAUD 1928 – 2014

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news | 2012-10-16
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…(The Salish People, Vol. IV), along with Maud’s A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend (Talonbooks, 1982). …