Collection search - Lecture series (classes) - [Aboriginal Mythologies] - University of Toronto - [Class 5 part 2 (side C)]
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Record information – Brief Lecture series (classes) - [Aboriginal Mythologies] - University of Toronto - [Class 5 part 2 (side C)]
Series title:[Tomson Highway fonds]Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1999-02-19Item number (ISN):537431Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Accession:2016-00749-4Media:SoundPart:9 of 15Production date:1999-02-19Country of production:cnDescription:Audio recording of one of several lectures (13 classes) given by Tomson Highway (University of Toronto), between January 1999 and November 1999 pertaining to Indigenous mythology. Class 5 (side C) Highway discusses Indigenous myths and their origins. Highway continues to talk about the Trickster (Coyote) tales, notably the sexuality of the character; the sexual "honesty" of the Trickster and his "super powers"; the fact that there is no gender hierarchy in Native mythology (Man and Nature are one); the idea that Christianity demonized sex and the body; the way white English speaking Europeans recorded Native myth and its account of sexuality. <25 min>Notes:Detailed holdings information: -
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