Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of...
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Oct 04, 2011
Tess
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This book is an interesting compilation of stories from various Native American groups about the important figure of Coyote. The figure of Coyote has many facets as the book teaches us. The author exemplifies this by his use of the chapters and their design. Each chapter shows a different side of Coyote and so it is as if each chapter has its own goal to explain a specific character trait. Once that chapter reaches this goal (usually at the end of the story) the chapter ends, even if it was
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Jan 22, 2011
Christy
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A collection of anthropologists' versions, not direct transcriptions of oral tales, so a bit clunky and dusty, in spite of Lopez's stated attempts to improve the style. I suspect (I'll never know) that the tales are/were quite different in the telling. But coyote as culture-hero, clown, trickster and everyman--that is, as the closest thing to a representative of humans in the mythic world--comes through. And it struck me that there is probably even a bizarre and tortured through-line to Wile E.
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Aug 30, 2011
Ian
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A collection of stories about the ubiquitous American Indian trickster figure. Lopez avoids the temptation of many earlier anthologists of trying to fit them into standard European templates, making Coyote strictly a hero or a devil analogue or turning the tales into "just so" stories. This means some come off as pointless, obscure, silly, scatological, or completely alien to the non-Indian reader - and let's face it, sometimes they are - but this, as they say, is a bug not a feature w
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Aug 17, 2010
Dave-O
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I await the day that Coyote returns to Earth... we need him again!
My interpretation of a Nez Perce Coyote legend can be found here: http://grandpapier.org/COYOTE?id_documen...
My interpretation of a Nez Perce Coyote legend can be found here: http://grandpapier.org/COYOTE?id_documen...
Aug 27, 2010
Eric
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This is one of the definitive collections of coyote tales. Lopez not only collects great stories and tells them with an engaging voice, he also provides an insightful introduction.
Jul 08, 2008
Valerie
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This collection of coyote tales from North America is one of the best mythology books I've ever read.
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