Table of contents 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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 Introduction
Ethnological Note
Orthographic Note
Part One: Unsuspected Devices and Designs
1. Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology
Postscript
2. How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma
Part Two: Breakthrough Performance
3. Breakthrough into Performance
Appendix ("The Story Concerning Coyote")
Postscript (Letter to Dmitri Segal)
4. Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy"
Postscripts (Comparative Perspective; The Tempest; Ruth Estabrook's response)
5. Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa"
6. Breakthrough into Performance Revisited
Part Three: Titles, Names, Natures
7. Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook
Postscript (Comparative perspective)
8. The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas 
Chinook Myth
Postscripts ( Literary uses and related versions; speech and Bernstein's 
codes; meta-narrative expressions; 
wider implications)
9. Discovering Oral Performance and Measure Verse in American Indian Narrative
10. Reading Clackamas Texts
Epilog
Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts
Bibliography
Index




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