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Pomo traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Pomo people of the North Coast region of northwestern California.. Pomo oral literature reflects the transitional position of Atsugewi culture between central California, Northwest Coast, Plateau, and Great Basin regions.
In the Northern Pomo dialect, -pomo or -poma was used as a suffix after the names of places, to mean a subgroup of people of the place. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By 1877 , the meaning of the word Pomo had been broadened, at least in the English language , to refer to not only the Pomo language but the entire group of people speaking it, as well—the people ...
Some of the earliest examples of postmodern literature are from the 1950s: William Gaddis' The Recognitions (1955), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955), and William Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959). [25] It then rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s with the publication of Joseph Heller 's Catch-22 in 1961, John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse in ...
[13] The Pomo are the indigenous people who occupied the area at the time of Spanish colonization. Later European-American settlers adopted "Ukiah" as an anglicized version of this name for the city. [14] Cayetano Juárez was granted Ukiah by Alta California. He was known to have a neutral relationship with the local Pomo people.
"Postmodernism" is "a highly contested term", [3] referring to "a particularly unstable concept", [4] that "names many different kinds of cultural objects and phenomena in many different ways". [5]
An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians . Onomastics has applications in data mining , with applications such as named-entity recognition , or recognition of the origin of names.
Kuksu was personified as a spirit being by the Pomo people. Their mythology and dance ceremonies were witnessed, including the spirit of Kuksu or Guksu, between 1892 and 1904. The Pomo used the name Kuksu or Guksu, depending on the dialect, as the name for a red-beaked supernatural being, that lived in a sweathouse at the southern end of the ...
The Pomo are an Indigenous People of California. Pomo may also refer to: Pomo languages, a language family of the Pomo People; the Pomo dialect of the Pol language, spoken in the Republic of the Congo; Pomo religion, religion of the Pomo People; Pomo, California, an unincorporated community; Postmodernism, often shortened to po-mo or pomo