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The Iroquois (Indians of North America: Heritage Edition)
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The Iroquois (Indians of North America: Heritage Edition)

An agricultural and matrilineal (the women owned all property and determined kinship) society, the Iroquois Confederacy was made up of six nations–Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
 
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A Grammar of the Seneca Language (UC Publications in Linguistics)
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A Grammar of the Seneca Language (UC Publications in Linguistics)

The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Seneca holds special typological interest because of its high degree of polysynthesis and fusion. It is historically important because of its central role in the Longhouse religion and its place in the pioneering linguistic work of the 19th century missionary Asher Wright. This grammatical description, which includes four extended texts in several genres, is the culminatin of Chafe’s long term study of the language over half a century.
 
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Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist
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Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist

This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author's philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues.
 
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Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition
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Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical TraditionTragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus. Each play is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture.
 
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