Made from Bone : Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon /
Recorded and transcribed by Jonathan Hill, this is a collection of mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuenai of southernmost Venezuela. The central character throughout the tales is a trickster-creator, Made-from-Bone, who survives a prolonged series of life-threatening attacks.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2009]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Introducing Made-from-Bone, the Trickster-Creator
- 1. The Arawakan Wakuenai of Venezuela
- Part 1: Words from the Primordial Times
- Overview
- 2. Narratives from the Primordial Times
- The Cricket-Brothers; or, The Origin of Made-from-Bone
- The Origin of Death
- Owl-Monkey; or, Made-from-Bone Tires to End Poisoning
- Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person
- The Origin of the Bat-People
- The Origin of Cooking with Hot Peppers
- The Origin of the Vulture-PeopleGreat Sickness; or, The Origin of Malaria
- Made-from-Bone Creates Evil Omens
- 3. Ethnohistorical Interlude: Historical Themes in the Myth of Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person
- Part 2: The World Begins
- Overview
- 4. Narratives from The World Begins
- Grandfather Sleep; or, The Origin of Night
- The Origin of Fire
- The Origin of Working In Manioc Gardens
- The Origin of Ceremonial Music
- The Origin of Bocachico-Fish Dances
- Pipirri; or, The Origin of Peach-Palm Fruits
- 5. Ethnomusicological Interlude: The Catfish Trumpet Festival of 1981, or How to Ask for a Drink in CurripacoPart 3: The World Opens Up
- Overview
- 6. Naratives from The World Opens Up
- Kuwai, the Powerful Sound the Opened Up the World
- The Struggle between Made-from-Bone and First-Woman
- The Origin of Hallucinogenic Snuff and Shamanic Healing
- The Origin of Honey for Curing
- The Origin of Witchcraft and Its Treatment
- The Origin of Enchanted Spirits and the City of Gold
- 7. Ethnological Coda: Shamanizing the State in Venezuela
- Appendix A: A Note on Translation MethodsAppendix B: AILLA Numbers for Narratives, Music, Dances, and Illustrations
- Notes
- Glossary
- References Cited
- Index
- back cover