Language for Throat and Tongue: Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon”

Language for Throat and Tongue: Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon”

(Carol VanHook/Wikimedia Commons) “[Elise] Paschen’s writing give new meaning to the term ‘ethnopoetics,’ taking it outside the boundaries of ‘traditional societies,’ ‘the informant,’ and the outsider who goes in to record ‘pre-literate narratives.'” The focus of anthropologists on fieldwork in oral history over the past century has been successful in its preservationist aspect regarding the narratives of “pre-literate” cultures. Ethnographers h…