{"product_id":"world-making-stories-maidu-language-and-community-renewal-on-a-shared-california-landscape-9781496201553","title":"World-Making Stories: Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape","description":"Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorld-Making Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California's rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned storyteller Hanc'ibyjim (Tom Young) performed Maidu and Atsugewi stories for anthropologist Ronald B. Dixon, who published these stories in 1912. The resulting \u003ci\u003eMaidu Texts\u003c\/i\u003e presented the stories in numbered block texts that, while serving as a source of linguistic decoding, also reflect the state of anthropological linguistics of the era by not conveying a sense of rhetorical or poetic composition. Sixty years later, noted linguist William Shipley engaged the texts as oral literature and composed a free verse literary translation, which he paired with the artwork of Daniel Stolpe and published in a limited-edition four-volume set that circulated primarily to libraries and private collectors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here M. Eleanor Nevins and the Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project team illuminate these important tales in a new way by restoring Maidu elements omitted by William Shipley and by bending the translation to more closely correspond in poetic form to the Maidu original. The beautifully told stories by Hanc'ibyjim are accompanied by Stolpe's intricate illustrations and by personal and pedagogical essays from scholars and Maidu leaders working to revitalize the language. The resulting \u003ci\u003eWorld-Making Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessity for language revitalization programs and an excellent model of indigenous community-university collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Eleanor Nevins \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of anthropology at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50416398532882,"sku":"9781496201553","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17866916-70c4-4578-84c9-55c1814d546b.jpg?v=1729417785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/world-making-stories-maidu-language-and-community-renewal-on-a-shared-california-landscape-9781496201553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}