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(Part of the Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium Series)
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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 Waku?nai 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252075706
ISBN13:9780252075704
Release Date:October 2008
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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