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Made from Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon

By Jonathan D. Hill

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0252033736, 9780252033735
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2221766 bytes)
Series
Interpetations of Culture in the New Millennium
Edition
1st
Pages
224\224
Time added
2017-03-23 12:16:58
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Description

Made-from-Bone provides the first complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking Wakuénai of southernmost Venezuela. The central character throughout these primordial times is a trickster-creator, Made-from-Bone, who survives a prolonged series of life-threatening attacks. Carefully recorded and transcribed by Jonathan D. Hill, these narratives offer scholars of South America and other areas the only ethnographically generated cosmogony of contemporary or ancient native peoples of South America.

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