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Publication details [#49166]

Webster, Anthony K. 2008. “To all the former cats and stomps of the Navajo Nation:” Performance, the individual, and cultural poetic traditions. Language in Society 37 (1) : 61–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creativity | identity negotiation | individual differences | language and culture | poetry

Language as a subject

Navajo

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with the comprehension of the individual's role in Navajo poetry performances, especially in three performances of putatively the same poem by Laura Tohe.