Thursday, May 25, 2017

Frey Book Talk Looks at Native Oral Tradition

University of Idaho anthropologist and author Rodney Frey will share his latest book on Native American oral traditions during a presentation Thursday, June 15, at 7 p.m., at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library.
“Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey into Native Oral Tradition,” has been published by Washington State University Press.
The book reflects a life-time of critical teachings as shared by Native elders with an ethnographer, relating to the power of story and empathy in how we learn and teach, and become human in a world rich with diversity, Frey said.
Frey received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology at in 1972, his master’s degree in 1974, and his doctorate in 1979, all from Colorado State University.
His other books include “Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu’umsh

(Coeur d’Alene Indians),” University of Washington Press, 2001 (reprinted with corrections, 2005); “Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest as told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail and other Elders,” University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Paperback edition, 1999; “Eye Juggling: Seeing the World Through a Looking Glass and a Glass Pane,” University Press of America, 1994; and “The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges,” University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Paperback edition, 1993.

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