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''Always Coming Home'' is a novel by author Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1985, about a cultural group of humans—the Kesh—who "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." (p. i) Part novel, part textbook, part anthropologist's record, ''Always Coming Home'' describes the life and culture of the Kesh people.〔Bernardo, Susan M. & Murphy, Graham J. ''Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion'', (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), pages 19-20.〕 ==Plot Introduction== The book weaves around the story of a Kesh woman called Stone Telling, who lived for years with her father's people—the Dayao or Condor people, whose society is rigid, patriarchal, hierarchical and militarily expansionist. The story fills less than a third of the book, with the rest being a mixture of Kesh cultural lore (including poetry, prose of various kinds, mythos, rituals, and recipes), essays on Kesh culture, and the musings of the narrator, "Pandora". Some editions of the book were accompanied by a tape of Kesh music and poetry. Pandora describes the book as a protest against contemporary civilization, which the Kesh call "the Sickness of Man". Pandora muses that one key difference is that due to cumulative genetic damage, the Kesh have a high infant mortality rate—there are many fewer of them than there are of us. They use such inventions of civilization as writing, steel, guns, electricity, trains, and a computer network (see below). However, unlike most neighboring societies, they reject government, a non-laboring caste, expansion of population or territory, disbelief in what we consider supernatural, and human domination of the natural environment. They blend millennia of human economic culture by combining aspects of hunter-gatherer, agriculture, and industry, but reject cities; indeed, what they call towns would count as villages now. The cultural lore has attributions or annotations such as an ethnographic fieldworker might make. A number of these are attributed to another Kesh woman, Little Bear Woman;〔(''Always Coming Home'', 2001 edition ) * Shahugoten. ''As told by Little Bear Woman of Sinshan to the Editor.'' Pp.57–59. (legend ) * Coming Home to Up the Hill House. ''By Little Bear Woman.'' P.258 (poem ) * The Writer to the Morning in Up the Hill House in Sinshan. ''By Little Bear Woman.'' P.258 (poem ) * A Song to Up the Hill House in Sinshan. ''By Little Bear Woman.'' P. 259. (poem ) * (Some of the paths around Sinshan Creek ). A Kesh map of the watershed of Creek, given to the Editor by Little Bear Woman of 〕 the name is a fair equivalent of the author's first name, "Ursula", which is Latin for ''little she-bear''.〔From (''ursa'' "a she-bear" ) + (''-ula'', fem. form of ''-ulus'' "diminutive" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Always Coming Home」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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