An account, by the original and eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angelo, of his first linguistically oriented field trip, in 1921, to the Achumawi tribe of northern California.
A mixture of fiction, folklore, tall tales, ritual, and jokes, these stories were written originally for children but should appeal to anyone with a playful and imaginative spirit.
One of the most colorful and captivating writers of the 20th century, Jaime de Angulo came to America to become a cowboy, not an author. And he did become a cowboy--and a doctor, and a psychologist, and a highly regarded anthropologist. However, it was as a writer that he ultimately found his true calling. His stories uniquely represented the ...
Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris to Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905, found work as a cowboy, and ended up in San Francisco the day before the Great Earthquake in 1906. A picaresque life followed as a homesteader in Big Sur, medical doctor, psychologist, renowned linguist, and novelist. As a linguist, de Angulo contributed ...
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