Inside Dazzling Mountains

TL;DR: Professor McGee's memoir upon "The Seri Indians" is furnished with a new topographic map, a detailed description of the country and of its fauna and flora, as well as a succinct account of the arts and social institutions of the natives.

TL;DR: The authors discuss the art of failure in the translation of a short poem in Navajo by Rex Lee Jim and present a creative transposition of the poem, or more precisely a failure, and a bit of exegesis and philology about the poem.

TL;DR: A condensed history of the use of black coral (genus Antipathes) in pharmacopoeias around the world can be found in this article, where the relevance of corals and rhodoliths in Seri culture is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, Tedlock presents new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts, and reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken languages of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

TL;DR: The World of Many (Fewer) Voices (WOWV) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about the extinction of species in the world of many (fewer) voices.

TL;DR: A re-edition, with Introduction, References, and Notes by Bernard Fontana, of the long our-of-print classic first published by the Bureau of American Ethnology includes sections on history, esthetic arts, sociology, linguistics and texts of speeches in Piman as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the "Wife" who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth is discussed. But it is not mentioned in this paper.