ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indigenous Peoples Of California, Hopi Mythology, Rabbiting
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Deangelo studied with krowber, sapir, and boas, gifted with languages but never finished his doctoral work at berkeley, still submitted important linguistic work. Did lots of work on folklore of californian native. One who wrote down the following story, around 1920. High desert plateau, small town, northern california. American who says he can"t learn the pit river language, but other languages like paiute are easier. Asks to stay with him (jack), narrator referred to as doc, At jack"s use rabbit skin blankets, can hear coyotes around, other wildlife. Jack"s wife lena is seen weaving and doing beadwork and such. Starts out with conjugating verb eat with different pronouns. Eventually deangelo will learn to be a shaman, words for medicines, that sort of thing. Learns about wars with paiutes and modocs in the past. Women are included in all of this as well including what"s going on at this gathering.
