Made from Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon

by Jonathan D. Hill

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"