Contributor biographical information for "In vain I tried to tell you" : essays in Native American ethnopoetics / Dell Hymes ; with a new preface by the author.
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Dell Hymes is professor emeritus of anthropology and English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics (Nebraska 2003).
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Poetry -- History and criticism.
Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore.