Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Behavioral Sciences
First Advisor
Oystein S. LaBianca
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship of the trickster character to the maintenance of Great Lakes Native American cultural identity by using interviews and literary analysis. The interviews gathered statements from participants about their personal experiences with narrative, and the social context of narrative, within their tribes. The literary analysis examines three stories in the Manabozho cycle: "The theft of fire," "Manabozho and wolf," and "The flood." The themese in these stories fulfill all four of William Bascom's four functions folklore. The hypothesis that narrative is a necessary factor of cultural maintenance has been supported by both the interviews and the literary analysis.
Recommended Citation
Barroso, Lacey E., "Narrative and the Maintenance of Great Lakes Native American Cultural Identity" (2013). Honors Theses. 69.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/69/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/69
Subject Area
Folklore, Oral tradition, Ojibwa Indians., Potawatomi Indians.
Creative Commons License
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/69/