Overview
Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted narrations and conversations in Oneida represent a rare collection of first-hand Iroquoian reflections on aspects of daily life and culture not found in print elsewhere. Each text is presented in Oneida with both an interlinear, word-by-word translation and a more colloquial translation in English. The book also contains a grammatical sketch of the Oneida language by Karin Michelson, co-author of the Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary, that describes how words are structured and combined into larger linguistic structures, thus allowing Glimpses to be used as a teaching text as well. The engrossing tales in Glimpses of Oneida Life will be a valuable resource for linguists and language learners, a useful source for those studying the history and culture of Iroquois people in the twentieth-century, and an entertaining read for anyone interested in everyday First Nations life in southern Ontario.
Full Product Details
Author: Karin Michelson ,
Norma Kennedy ,
Mercy A. Doxtator
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9781442650305
ISBN 10: 1442650303
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 18 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Glimpses of Oneida Life is an enormous contribution to our knowledge of Iroquoian languages and a joy to read. - Carrie Dyck, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University Glimpses of Oneida Life makes an important contribution to the documentation of an endangered language at a time when language loss around the globe is growing in significance and alarm. These texts, rich in variety and detail, are wonderfully illustrative of Oneida life and language. - Clifford Abbott, Department of Information and Computing Science, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Author Information
Karin Michelson is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. Norma Kennedy has taught the Oneida language in New York and Ontario for more than twenty-five years. She is a master speaker at the Oneida Language and Cultural Center at the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Mercy Doxtator (1936–2005) taught the Oneida language for almost twenty-five years at the Oneida Nation of the Thames, where she was the founder and director of the Oneida Language and Cultural Center.
