Collection search - Lecture series (classes) - [Aboriginal Mythologies] - University of Toronto - [Class 5 part 2 (side C)]

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1999-02-19

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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>