Yurupar?: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth
(Part of the Religions of the World Series)
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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff spent much of his life studying the oral culture of the Tukano Indians in the Northwest Amazon, including twenty years simply learning the four key Tukanoan languages. Through his translations and commentaries of the yurupar fertility mythologem and ritual complex, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought. The four Tukano "texts" in this volume "speak of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0945454082
ISBN13:9780945454083
Release Date:August 1996
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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