No word for time : the way of the Algonquin People
Evan T. Pritchard
Bok 2001
| Utgitt | Pointer Oak , 2001
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| Omfang | 240 s.
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| Opplysninger | "In No Word for Time, Evan T. Pritchard, a descendant of the Micmac people as well as a scholar, tells how he set out to learn more about his own native traditions through Algonquin speech - an intricate and beautiful metaphoric language that, like so many native languages around the globe - is fast disappearing. The Algonquin - once a vast nation, and still a potent spiritual force - "don't write in metaphor, they speak it. - they don't recite poetry, they live it." Where there is "no word for time, " life moves with the rhythms of nature, and the dominant culture's "time equals money, money equals good" equation is superceded by a philosophy that prizes the beauty of spoken language, community, and respect for the earth."
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| ISBN | 978-1-937462-01-7
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