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“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here seal sleep. Here we say body covered with mouths." How can a place have a name? A man, a woman may have a name, but they die. We are a story until we die. Then our names are very dangerous. A place is a story happening many times.” — Ralph Metzner
When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories:
"Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here seal sleep. Here we say body covered with mouths."
How can a place have a name? A man, a woman may have a name, but they die.
We are a story until we die. Then our names are very dangerous.
A place is a story happening many times.