Background
He was born in Paris of Spanish parents.
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Coyote Man & Old Doctor Loon / Jaime de Angulo ; edited with an introduction by Bob Callahan
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The Lariat: And Other Writings
( One of the most colorful and captivating writers of the...)
One of the most colorful and captivating writers of the twentieth century, Jaime de Angulo came to America to become a cowboy, not an author. And he did become a cowboy and a doctor, and a psychologist, and a highly regarded anthropologist. However, it was as a writer that he ultimately found his true calling. His stories uniquely represented the bohemian sensibility of the time, and he was known for infusing intellectualism into his coyote tales and shamanic mysticism. So vivid were his tales that Ezra Pound called him the American Ovid,” and William Carlos Williams claimed that de Angulo was one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered.” The Lariat, which may well be his most important piece of fiction, is highlighted in this prize collection, along with other writings that have long been unavailable.
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Jaime Angulo
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Education
De Angulo was particularly interested in the semantics of grammatical systems of the tribes he studied, but he was also a skilled phonetician and a pioneer in the study of North American ethnomusicology, particularly in his recordings of native music
Career
He came to America in 1905 to become a cowboy, and eventually arrived in San Francisco on the eve of the great 1906 earthquake. He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy, medical doctor and psychologist. He survived a suicide attempt after cutting his throat from ear to ear in Berkeley.
He became a linguist who contributed to the knowledge of certain Northern California Indian languages, as well as some in Mexico.
As a linguist he contributed to the knowledge of more than a dozen native Northern Californian and Mexican languages and music-systems De Angulo corresponded with Franz Boas, Alfred L. Kroeber, and Edward Sapir, and received considerable support for his fieldwork from Boas’s Committee on Research in American Native Languages.
At this point his writings took a turn into fiction and poetry, much of which he justified as alternative techniques of presenting the ethnographic detail he had collected in accessible format. This was especially true for his bestseller, Indian Tales.
Much of his fictional work attempted to recognize and embrace the native "coyote tales", or the trickster wisdom inherent in native storytelling.
Ezra Pound called him "the American Ovid" and William Carlos Williams "one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered." de Angulo also went on to tutor numerous famous authors including Jack Spicer in linguistics, and Robert Duncan in North American shamanic sorcery. He appears as a character in Jack Kerouac"s books Perceptions of de Angulo swing wildly.
He is seen alternately as a gifted but irresponsible and failed amateur, to an ‘‘Old Coyote,’’ an anarchist hero and talented subversive.
De Angulo shaped and diversified the scholarly picture of the native Californian landscape. He was friend and colleague to poets, composers, and scholars such as Harry Partch, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Cowell, Carl Jung, Doctorate. H. Lawrence, and many others
Works
book
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The Lariat: And Other Writings
( One of the most colorful and captivating writers of the...)
- Coyote Man & old Doctor Loon
- Coyote Man & Old Doctor Loon / Jaime de Angulo ; edited with an introduction by Bob Callahan
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The Lariat: And Other Writings
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Died
1950 (aged 63)