Publisher's Synopsis
Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies andlanguages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. Itbegan as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legendpassed from generation to generation. In translation it grew from myth to poem.The text comes from expedition notes recorded by Danish explorer KnudRasmussen in 1921. Edward Field got a copy from the Harvard Library andtranslated it into English.