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Author Bender, Margaret Clelland.

Title Signs of Cherokee culture : Sequoyah's syllabary in Eastern Cherokee life / Margaret Bender.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 187 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series North Carolina History & Culture anthology
North Carolina History & Culture anthology.
NC LIVE module.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Contents Preface; Note on Orthography; Introduction; 1. Pride and Ambivalence; 2. Reading, Writing, and the Reproduction of Cultural Categories; 3. Talking Leaves, Silent Leaves; 4. Reading the Signs; 5. What Else You Gonna Go After?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
Summary Based on extensive fieldwork, this text uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabury - the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language. It also explores the role of this language in the context of tourism.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 -- Influence.
Sequoyah, 1770?-1843.
Sequoyah, 1770?-1843.
Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 -- Influence.
Cherokee language -- Writing -- Social aspects.
Cherokee language -- Writing.
Social aspects.
Cherokee language.
Cherokee Indians -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs.
Cherokee Indians.
North Carolina.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
In: (ScCtBLL)MODID-00000000063_APPID-00000002077 North Carolina History & Culture
Other Form: Print version: Bender, Margaret Clelland. Signs of Cherokee culture. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 080782707X (DLC) 2001059821 (OCoLC)48706498
ISBN 0807860050 (electronic book)
9780807860052 (electronic book)
9780807827079 (alkaline paper)
080782707X (alkaline paper)
9780807853764 (paperback)
0807853763 (paperback)