December's Child
Title | December's Child PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Blackburn |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2023-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520342658 |
As Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside in The Journal of California Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (WINTER 1975), pp. 241-244:A child born in December is "like a baby in an ecstatic condition, but he leaves this condition" (p. 102). The Chumash, reduced by the 20th century from one of the richest and most populous groups in California to a pitiful remnant, had almost lost their strage and ecstatic mental world by the time John Peabody Harrington set out to collect what was still remembered of their language and oral literature. Working with a handful of ancient informants, Harrington recorded all he could--then, in bitter rejection of the world, kept it hidden and unpublished. After his death there began a great quest for his scattered notes, and these notes are now being published at last. Thomas Blackburn, among the first and most assiduous of the seekers through Harrington's materials, has published her the main body of oral literature that Harrington collected from the Chumash of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Blackburn has done much more: he has added to the 111 stories a commentary and analysis, almost book-length in its own right, and a glossary of the Chumash and Californian-Spanish terms that Harrington was prone to leave untranslated in the texts.
Report of Superintendent, Neglected and Dependent Children of Ontario, Year Ending December 30th ...
Title | Report of Superintendent, Neglected and Dependent Children of Ontario, Year Ending December 30th ... PDF eBook |
Author | Ontario. Department of Neglected and Dependent Children |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Child welfare |
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Report of the Committee on Backward Children Investigation, December 31, 1910
Title | Report of the Committee on Backward Children Investigation, December 31, 1910 PDF eBook |
Author | School District of Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Public Education. Committee on Backward Children Investigation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Children with mental disabilities |
ISBN |
Western LNG Project: Comments and appendices
Title | Western LNG Project: Comments and appendices PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Office of Pipeline and Producer Regulation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 840 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Liquefied natural gas |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916 1915- 1916 v. 9
Title | Proceedings of the second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916 1915- 1916 v. 9 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | |
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Sketches in Italy and Greece
Title | Sketches in Italy and Greece PDF eBook |
Author | John Addington Symonds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece
Title | Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece PDF eBook |
Author | John Addington Symonds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |