TY - GEN ID - 30923207 TI - Ute Texts AU - Givón, Talmy AU - Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. PY - 2013 VL - v. 7 SN - 18795838 SN - 9027272425 1299737064 9781299737068 9789027272423 9789027202895 9027202893 9789027202901 9027202907 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Ute language. KW - Ute language KW - Storytelling. KW - Indians of North America KW - Uta language KW - Yuta language KW - Story-telling KW - Telling of stories KW - Numic languages KW - Oral interpretation KW - Children's stories KW - Folklore KW - Oral interpretation of fiction KW - Performance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30923207 AB - This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute story-telling tradition is the people's literary heritage, with the narrative style allowing considerable artistic freedom and diversity in contents and style. Stories were not memorized verbatim, and story-tellers took creative liberty in elaborating and re-inventing the 'same' tale. The core cultural contents of each story are nevertheless preserved across tellers. Ute stories were most likely told at night around the fire, in front of or inside the lodge, to a mixed audience of children and adults who had heard the tale many time before. The stories aimed to both instruct and entertain. Their underlying themes are stoic and oft-cynical reflections on the vagaries of human behavior and harsh existence. They are the foundational literary tradition of The People--Núuchi-u. ER -