Watunna An Orinoco Creation Cycle

Name: Watunna An Orinoco Creation Cycle
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ISBN: 9780292715899

ISBN-10: 0292715897

ISBN-13: 9780292715899

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Marc de Civrieux, David Guss, Marc; de Civrieux, David Guss, David Guss

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From reviews of the first edition: "Anthropologists and folklorists have gathered, against the coming night of worldwide electronic frost, sheaves and sheaves of oral narrative, but little of it is as readable, coherent, and thought-provoking as Watunna ... Though the Watunna can be for us... little more than a resonant entertainment and gaudy fossil, the two existential mysteries that it addressesthe existence of the universe, the existence of 'I'have not been, beneath the great flurry of modern knowing, dissolved." John Updike, New Yorker "One rarely reads a mythical corpus so richly textured as this Makiritare cycle....The result is a stunning portrayal of Makiritare creativity and…

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David Guss teaches anthropology at Tufts University and is an associate of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University.



Preface for a New Millennium


Teller's Preface


Introduction


Wanadi


Seruhe Ianadi


Nadeiumadi


Attawanadi


Kaweshawa


Iureke


Nuna


Huiio


Kawao


Manuwa


Ahisha


Iureke's Woman


Dama


Kasenadu


Dinoshi


Wachamadi


Mominaru


Mominaru


Kuamachi


Mado


Wlaha


Makusani


Makusani


Marahuaka


Kuchi


Semenia


Mado and Wachedi


Wahnatu


Wahnatu


Kahiuru


Ankosturana


Mahaiwadi


Amenadina


Wanadi Nistama


Medatia


The Waitie


Glossary