Monsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions

This paper examines “Coyote, Whirlwind, and Ravine,” a long tale told in the Northern Paiute language by McDermitt storyteller Pete Snapp and recorded by folklorist Sven Liljeblad in the early 1960’s. It weaves in traditional episodes of western Numic folklore to narrate the history of the Fort McDe...

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Autor principal:	Veyrié Thierry
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2021
Materias:	body indigeneity monsters myth northern paiute oral history Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:464904314d0b41bc9dc6b410fc80398d2021-12-05T14:11:06ZMonsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions1339-787710.2478/eas-2021-0021https://doaj.org/article/464904314d0b41bc9dc6b410fc80398d2021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2021-0021https://doaj.org/toc/1339-7877This paper examines “Coyote, Whirlwind, and Ravine,” a long tale told in the Northern Paiute language by McDermitt storyteller Pete Snapp and recorded by folklorist Sven Liljeblad in the early 1960’s. It weaves in traditional episodes of western Numic folklore to narrate the history of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community as witnessed by an elder born shortly after the beginning of the colonization of this area of the Northwestern Great Basin in the western United States. This paper explores how the bodies of certain characters who emanate from landscape, mainly monsters, are tools for the narrative expression of social change, for the telling of history, and the expression of Indigenous spiritual frameworks. It places the experience of the Indigenous social body, embodied by Coyote, through the grinds of the ultra-material Ravine and confronts it to ethereal nefarious powers. Poetics of materiality applied to the body of Coyote operate a structural transformation. Mythical turmoil expresses social experiences and change in the colonial context, but also makes manifest the transformation of the social body that result in the contemporary form of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community.Veyrié ThierrySciendoarticlebodyindigeneitymonstersmythnorthern paiuteoral historyEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENEthnologia Actualis, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 58-81 (2021)
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description	This paper examines “Coyote, Whirlwind, and Ravine,” a long tale told in the Northern Paiute language by McDermitt storyteller Pete Snapp and recorded by folklorist Sven Liljeblad in the early 1960’s. It weaves in traditional episodes of western Numic folklore to narrate the history of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community as witnessed by an elder born shortly after the beginning of the colonization of this area of the Northwestern Great Basin in the western United States. This paper explores how the bodies of certain characters who emanate from landscape, mainly monsters, are tools for the narrative expression of social change, for the telling of history, and the expression of Indigenous spiritual frameworks. It places the experience of the Indigenous social body, embodied by Coyote, through the grinds of the ultra-material Ravine and confronts it to ethereal nefarious powers. Poetics of materiality applied to the body of Coyote operate a structural transformation. Mythical turmoil expresses social experiences and change in the colonial context, but also makes manifest the transformation of the social body that result in the contemporary form of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community.
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title	Monsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions
title_short	Monsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions
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Monsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions

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