Review of Artistry in Native American Myths, by Karl Kroeber.

Authors

Kathleen Danker, South Dakota State University

Date of this Version

March 2000

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 171 - 172. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Abstract

In this volume, Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, makes an important contribution to the understanding of the oral mythology of Native North America by using thirty-six stories to illustrate and explore the form, function, and artistic achievement of such narratives.