Made from Bone

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Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon

By: Jonathan D. Hill

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Paperback | 14 December 2008

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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 Wakuu00e9nai 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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''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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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface: Introducing Made-from-Bone, the Trickster-Creator	p. xi
The Arawakan Wakuenai of Venezuela	p. 1
Words from the Primordial Times Overview	p. 20
Narratives from the Primordial Times	p. 25
The Cricket-Brothers; or, The Origin of Made-from-Bone	p. 25
The Origin of Death	p. 29
Owl-Monkey; or, Made-from-Bone Tries to End Poisoning	p. 31
Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person	p. 33
The Origin of the Bat-People	p. 37
The Origin of Cooking with Hot Peppers	p. 38
The Origin of the Vulture-People	p. 42
Great Sickness; or, The Origin of Malaria	p. 48
Made-from-Bone Creates Evil Omens	p. 53
Ethnohistorical Interlude: Historical Themes in the Myth of Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person	p. 57
The World Begins Overview	p. 70
Narratives from "The World Begins"	p. 75
Grandfather Sleep; or, The Origin of Night	p. 75
The Origin of Fire	p. 80
The Origin of Working in Manioc Gardens	p. 82
The Origin of Ceremonial Music	p. 83
The Origin of Bocachico-Fish Dances	p. 85
Pipirri; or, The Origin of Peach-Palm Fruits	p. 87
Ethnomusicological Interlude: The Catfish Trumpet Festival of 1981, or How to Ask for a Drink in Curripaco	p. 92
The World Opens Up Overview	p. 110
Narratives from "The World Opens Up"	p. 117
Kuwai, the Powerful Sound that Opened Up the World	p. 117
The Struggle between Made-from-Bone and First-Woman	p. 127
The Origin of Hallucinogenic Snuff and Shamanic Healing	p. 134
The Origin of Honey for Curing	p. 136
The Origin of Witchcraft and Its Treatment	p. 138
The Origin of Enchanted Spirits and the City of Gold	p. 142
Ethnological Coda: Shamanizing the State in Venezuela	p. 147
A Note on Translation Methods	p. 157
AILLA Numbers for Narratives, Music, Dances, and Illustrations	p. 160
Notes	p. 163
Glossary	p. 171
References Cited	p. 177
Index	p. 185
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