| Diamond Jenness, National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man (Canada) - 1977 - 472 páginas
...often very coarse, in the dramatic festivals of the west coast natives, but not in formal speeches. 2 " Metaphor is largely in use among these peoples; unless...councils, where they speak almost entirely in metaphors." " Jesuit Relations," vol. x, p. 219. the vicinity and a fictitious caribou, bounding from the woods,... | |
| Penny Petrone - 1983 - 258 páginas
...contribute to the difficulties of exact translation, a problem recognized by a French missionary who warned: 'Metaphor is largely in use among these Peoples; unless...councils, where they speak almost entirely in metaphors' [Jesuit Relations, x, 2191. ^ If the Europeans sometimes regarded the Indians as barbarian children... | |
| Ann Fienup-Riordan - 2000 - 336 páginas
...the civilizing influence of Christianity. Clements (1996:66) quotes Father Paul Le Jeune's warning: "Metaphor is largely in use among these Peoples; unless...councils, where they speak almost entirely in metaphors." At the same time that they admired Huron oratory, the Jesuits contended that the need for metaphor... | |
| Paul Perron - 2003 - 380 páginas
...quasi que par metaphores' (Metaphors are widely used by these people; if you are not used to this then you will understand nothing in their Councils, where they speak almost entirely in metaphors) (1636: 119). This might be seen as a simple concession to elocutio by which the narrator, because of... | |
| Carole Blackburn - 2004 - 194 páginas
...importance of metaphor in Huron governing councils: "Metaphor is largely in use among these People; unless you accustom yourself to it, you will understand...even entire villages, which have become estranged" (10:2.19). In other instances, the Jesuits remarked on the symbolic importance of gifts given in a... | |
| Georges E. Sioui - 1999 - 282 páginas
...Peoples; unless you accustom yourself to it, you will understand nothing in their councils." He continues, "They claim by this present to reunite all hearts...even entire Villages, which have become estranged." The fifth present "is made to smooth the roads and to clear away the brushwood ... that is to say,... | |
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