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Miti e leggende degli indiani d'America
In questo splendido volume sono raccolte centocinquanta leggende, provenienti da un'ottantina di gruppi tribali, che offrono un panorama ricco e avvincente dei miti tramandati dagli indiani d'america. Sono storie di creazione e d'amore, di eroi e di guerra, di animali, di bricconi, della fine del mondo, provenienti da ogni parte del continente nordamericano. I brevi commenri che accompagnano ogni leggenda e i due glossari finali sulla vita contemporanea, unitamente ai racconti - pubblicati per la prima volta o tratti dalle miglioro fonte folcloristiche del XIX secolo - rendono questo volume il più completo e autentico che mai sia sia stato scritto sui miti, sugli usi e costumi degli indiani d'america.
699 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Richard Erdoes
73 books40 followersRichard Erdoes was an artist, photographer, illustrator and author. He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children. Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time.
Erdoes wrote histories, collections of Native American stories and myths, and wrote about such voices of the Native American Renaissance as Leonard and Mary Crow Dog and John Fire Lame Deer. In 1975 the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Erdoes continued to write and remained active in the movement for Native American civil rights.
His papers are preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children. Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time.
Erdoes wrote histories, collections of Native American stories and myths, and wrote about such voices of the Native American Renaissance as Leonard and Mary Crow Dog and John Fire Lame Deer. In 1975 the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Erdoes continued to write and remained active in the movement for Native American civil rights.
His papers are preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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January 25, 2026
4,5 ⭐
Una raccolta quasi completa. Una lunga ricerca che ha portato ad un grande risultato. I due antropologi hanno trascritto e tradotto molteplici leggende di diverse nazioni nativo americane, dando rilevanza alle radici culturali e mantenendo l'autenticità dei racconti riportati. La traduzione è un pó desueta ma rimane comunque buona.
Tolgo mezza stellina solo perché non c'è una suddivisione di tribù e sottoclassi che sarebbe stata anche più utile data la mole di informazioni.
Una raccolta quasi completa. Una lunga ricerca che ha portato ad un grande risultato. I due antropologi hanno trascritto e tradotto molteplici leggende di diverse nazioni nativo americane, dando rilevanza alle radici culturali e mantenendo l'autenticità dei racconti riportati. La traduzione è un pó desueta ma rimane comunque buona.
Tolgo mezza stellina solo perché non c'è una suddivisione di tribù e sottoclassi che sarebbe stata anche più utile data la mole di informazioni.
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