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Indigenous Oral Traditions (NAS 239)

Term: Academic Year 2009-10 - Winter

Faculty

There is not currently a faculty member for this course

Schedule

Mon, 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM (1/12/2010 - 4/23/2010) Location: MAIN

Description

Students in this course study a variety of traditional oral genres in Indigenous cultures, including myths, supernatural and historical legends, animal tales, personal anecdotes, jokes and humorous tales, and bawdy stories. The course focuses on how cultural information and shared values are encoded into and created through narrative structures, and how aspects of performance are a dialogue between performer and audience.

Lib Ed: WritingInt; DivJustice; Arts-Hum; Env: Narrative