Introduction 5
Ethnological Note 15
Orthographic Note 24
Part One Unsuspected Devices and Designs
1. Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology 35
Postscript 62
2. How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma 65
Part Two Breakthrough to Performance
3. Breakthrough into Performance 79
Appendix ("The story concerning Coyote") 134
Postscript (Letter to Dmitri Segal) 138
4. Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy" 142
Postscripts (Comparative perspective; The Tempest; Ruth Estabrook's response)
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5. Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa" 184
6. Breakthrough into Performance Revisited 200
Part Three Titles, Names, and Natures
7. Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook 263
Postscript (Comparative perspective) 269
8. The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth 274
Postscripts (Literary uses and related versions; speech and Bernstein's codes; meta-narrative expressions; wider implications) 299
9. Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative 309
10. Reading Clackamas Texts 342
Epilog 382
Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts 385
Bibliography 386
Index 399
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