Made-From-Bone: : Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon - Jonathan D. Hill

Made-From-Bone:

Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon

By: Jonathan D. Hill

Hardcover | 14 November 2008

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Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South America. Among the Arawak-speaking Wakuenai of southernmost Venezuela, storytellers refer to these narratives as "words from the primordial times," and they are set in an unfinished space-time before there were any clear distinctions between humans and animals, men and women, day and night, old and young, and powerful and powerless. The central character throughout these primordial times and the ensuing developments that open up the world of distinct peoples, species, and places is a trickster-creator, Made-from-Bone, who survives a prolonged series of life-threatening attacks and ultimately defeats all his adversaries.

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. Hill includes translations of key mythic narratives along with interpretive and ethnographic discussion that expands on the myths surrounding this fascinating and enigmatic character with broad appeal throughout various folkloric traditions.

Industry Reviews
''An absorbing journey through the mythic history and musicscapes of the Wakuenai people. Jonathan D. Hill masterfully captures the sensuous and poetic dimensions of Wakuenai narratives while highlighting their enduring engagement with the events, struggles, and uncertainties of modern life. A painstakingly assembled Amerindian bible complete with its own hardcore exegesis.'' Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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