| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 195 pages :) : illustrations, maps. |
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Interpretations of culture in the new millennium |
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Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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""The Origin of the Vulture-People""""Great 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"" |
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""5. Ethnomusicological Interlude: The Catfish Trumpet Festival of 1981, or How to Ask for a Drink in Curripaco""""Part 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"" |
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""Appendix A: A Note on Translation Methods""""Appendix B: AILLA Numbers for Narratives, Music, Dances, and Illustrations""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""References Cited""; ""Index""; ""back cover"" |
| Summary |
Recorded and transcribed by Jonathan Hill, this is a collection of mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuénai 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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Curripaco Indians -- Folklore.
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Curripaco mythology.
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Curripaco Indians -- Songs and music.
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Tricksters -- Venezuela.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Curripaco Indians. (OCoLC)fst00885407
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Curripaco mythology. (OCoLC)fst01200239
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Tricksters. (OCoLC)fst01156644
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Venezuela. (OCoLC)fst01204166
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Curripaco Indians -- Folklore.
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Curripaco Indians -- Songs and music.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01423855
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hill, Jonathan David, 1954- Made-from-bone. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008021798 |
| ISBN |
9780252091513 (electronic bk.) |
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0252091515 (electronic bk.) |
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