Upper Perene Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2014
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-0-8032-4537-2 (ISBN)
Description
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto PerenE Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. The Alto PerenE speakers are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Alto PerenE oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community.
Upper PerenE Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Alto PerenE oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by Elena Mihas, a specialist in Northern Kampa language varieties, and grounded in the actual performances of Alto PerenE speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for the first time. Each original text in Alto PerenE is accompanied by an English translation, and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. This collection of oral literature is masterful and authoritative as well as entertaining and provocative, testifying to the power of Alto PerenE storytelling.
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto PerenE Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. The Alto PerenE speakers are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Alto PerenE oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community.
Upper PerenE Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Alto PerenE oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by Elena Mihas, a specialist in Northern Kampa language varieties, and grounded in the actual performances of Alto PerenE speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for the first time. Each original text in Alto PerenE is accompanied by an English translation, and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. This collection of oral literature is masterful and authoritative as well as entertaining and provocative, testifying to the power of Alto PerenE storytelling.
Reviews / Votes
"A sophisticated and interesting, discourse-centered approach to culture that can serve as a model for integrating linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, this collection demonstrates how much cultural variability exists within and among the various indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon region."-Jonathan Hill, author of Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History in an Amazonian Community"Books like this are a feast for linguists and anthropologists alike, and are all too rare. . . . The storytelling alone provides a unique insight into a world that will be unfamiliar to most English speakers. . . . Its integrated approach to culture and language . . . gives the reader a true appreciation of the mental universe inhabited by these speakers of a threatened, but defiant, language of Peru."-Christopher Moseley, Ogmios, newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
27 photographs, 17 illustrations, 3 maps, 1 appendix, 1 glossary
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
760 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-4537-2 (9780803245372)
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E-Book
12/2014
1st Edition
University of Nebraska Press
€42.99
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Person
Elena Mihas is a postdoctoral associate in anthropological linguistics at James Cook University in Australia.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Objective, Method, Data, and Structure
Orthography
Abbreviations
Synopsis of Texts
Part 1. History
1. Pava vitsikirori kipatsi
(Pava, Who Made the Earth)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 2. Okonaatantakari kaniri(How Sweet Manioc Appeared)Alberto Perez Espinoza 3. Okonaatantari paamari(How Fire Came into Existence)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 4. Pava Apinka(God Apinka)Luis Mauricio Rosa 5. ApinkaBertha Rodriguez de Caleb and Abdias Caleb Quinchori 6. ApinkaElias Meza Pedro, Gregorio Santos Perez, and Livia Julio de Quinchori 7. Yookantapakairi virakocha(How the Whites Threw Us Out)Fredi Miguel Ucayali 8. Natsitonini(The Stream of Bones)Manuel Ruben Jacinto 9. Tsika okantakota ovayeritantsi(About the Craft of War)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 10. Apapanani(The Brook of Liver Parts)Gregorio Santos Perez 11. Ovayeri inoshikantarori kooya(When Warriors Kidnapped a Woman)Paulina Garcia Nate 12. Ovayeri inoshikantzi eentsi(The Warriors Kidnapped Children)Ines Perez de Santos 13. Nonkinkitsatakotero nayironi(I Will Tell about My Deceased Mother-in-Law)Victorina Rosas de Castro 14. Tsika okanta nosaikantakari Marankiaroki(How We Settled Down in Bajo Marankiari)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb 15. Tsika okanta nonaakoventakiri matsipaye(How I Witnessed Events Involving Witches)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb Part 2. Landscape 16. Ashiropanko(The Iron House)Gerardo Castro Manuela 17. Atziri yamaniri mapi pona paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire and Stone)Elias Meza Pedro, with Gregorio Santos Perez 18. Atziri yamaniri paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 19. Tzivi(Salt)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 20. Tzivi(Salt)Abraham Jumanga Lopez 21. Manitzipanko(The Jaguar House)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 22. Imoro Naviriri(The Naviriri Hole)Elias Meza Pedro 23. Otzinantakari otzishi omontero Samamparini(How the Hill Appeared across from the Village of Villa Progreso)Raul Martin Bernata 24. Anashironi(The Anashirona Stream)Julio Castro Shinkaki, with Delia Rosas Rodriguez 25. PichanakiOtoniel Ramos Rodriguez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 26. PichanakiAlmacia Benavidez Fernandez 27. Kiatsi(The Owner of the River)Carmen Pachiri Quinchori 28. Peyari(The Bone Spirit)Gregorio Santos Perez 29. Inaaventa kamari Kovatsironi(Speaking with Regard to the Demon from Kovatsironi)Ines Perez de Santos 30. Tsamirimenta(The Curassow Crest Stone)Moises Santos Rojas 31. Maninkaroite(The Invisible Women)Moises Santos Rojas 32. Ashitarori otzishipaye(Masters of the Hills)Elena Nestor de Capurro, with Victoria Manchi de Martin 33. Inkaari Chorinkaveni(Lake Churingaveni)Moises Santos Rojas 34. Chorinkaveni(Churingaveni)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa
Part 3. Ritual
35. Ampinateri Pava(What We Will Offer to Pava)Clelia Mishari, with Gregorio Santos Perez 36. Kamenantsi(Traditional Advice)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 37. Tsika okantya ashimaapakotantyari(How to Be a Good Fisherman)Gregorio Santos Perez 38. Yamaniri pava impereta(They Were Worshipping the Stone Divinity)Delia Rosas Rodriguez 39. Arika ashimaatya(When We Fish)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 40. Ookantyarori inkani(How to Chase Away Rain)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 41. Shinavaite ovariri atziri(Shinavaite Who Ate People)Abdias Caleb Quinchori 42. Okonaatantakari mavira(How Mavira Appeared)Luis Mauricio Rosa, with Raul Martin Bernata and Victoria Manchi de Martin 43. MaviraElena Nestor de Capurro 44. MaviraInes Perez de Santos and Moises Santos Rojas 45. Pavankiri ooria(Solar Deity)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb 46. Iyovapajirika ooriatsiri(When the Sun Comes Out)Paulina Garcia Nate 47. Ipantsakoitziri kashiri(They Sing about the Moon)Paulina Garcia Nate 48. Arika antarote kooya(When a Girl Had Her First Menses)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 49. Aavakantsi(Taking a Spouse)Gregorio Santos Perez 50. Kamaki aparoni atziri(When a Person Died)Delia Rosas Rodriguez 51. Ikantakota sheripiari pairani(About Shamans Who Existed in the Past)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 52. Sheripiari Julio Quintsori(Shaman Julio Quintsori)Frida Thomas Huaman 53. Impantsakoteri isherini(He Will Sing about His Tobacco)Paulina Garcia Nate 54. Yantavairi sheripiari(Shaman's Work)Moises Santos Rojas 55. Sheripiari(Shaman)Ines Perez de Santos 56. Okantakota matsitantsi(About Witchcraft)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 57. Ochonkiri Abdias(She Steam-Bathed Abdias)Maria Virginia Lopez, Abdias Caleb Quinchori, Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb, and Victorina Rosas de Castro 58. Antavairi aavintantzinkaro(Healer's Work)Luzmila Machari Quinchori
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Ideophones Used by the Narrators Notes Glossary References Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Objective, Method, Data, and Structure
Orthography
Abbreviations
Synopsis of Texts
Part 1. History
1. Pava vitsikirori kipatsi
(Pava, Who Made the Earth)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 2. Okonaatantakari kaniri(How Sweet Manioc Appeared)Alberto Perez Espinoza 3. Okonaatantari paamari(How Fire Came into Existence)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 4. Pava Apinka(God Apinka)Luis Mauricio Rosa 5. ApinkaBertha Rodriguez de Caleb and Abdias Caleb Quinchori 6. ApinkaElias Meza Pedro, Gregorio Santos Perez, and Livia Julio de Quinchori 7. Yookantapakairi virakocha(How the Whites Threw Us Out)Fredi Miguel Ucayali 8. Natsitonini(The Stream of Bones)Manuel Ruben Jacinto 9. Tsika okantakota ovayeritantsi(About the Craft of War)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 10. Apapanani(The Brook of Liver Parts)Gregorio Santos Perez 11. Ovayeri inoshikantarori kooya(When Warriors Kidnapped a Woman)Paulina Garcia Nate 12. Ovayeri inoshikantzi eentsi(The Warriors Kidnapped Children)Ines Perez de Santos 13. Nonkinkitsatakotero nayironi(I Will Tell about My Deceased Mother-in-Law)Victorina Rosas de Castro 14. Tsika okanta nosaikantakari Marankiaroki(How We Settled Down in Bajo Marankiari)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb 15. Tsika okanta nonaakoventakiri matsipaye(How I Witnessed Events Involving Witches)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb Part 2. Landscape 16. Ashiropanko(The Iron House)Gerardo Castro Manuela 17. Atziri yamaniri mapi pona paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire and Stone)Elias Meza Pedro, with Gregorio Santos Perez 18. Atziri yamaniri paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 19. Tzivi(Salt)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 20. Tzivi(Salt)Abraham Jumanga Lopez 21. Manitzipanko(The Jaguar House)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 22. Imoro Naviriri(The Naviriri Hole)Elias Meza Pedro 23. Otzinantakari otzishi omontero Samamparini(How the Hill Appeared across from the Village of Villa Progreso)Raul Martin Bernata 24. Anashironi(The Anashirona Stream)Julio Castro Shinkaki, with Delia Rosas Rodriguez 25. PichanakiOtoniel Ramos Rodriguez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 26. PichanakiAlmacia Benavidez Fernandez 27. Kiatsi(The Owner of the River)Carmen Pachiri Quinchori 28. Peyari(The Bone Spirit)Gregorio Santos Perez 29. Inaaventa kamari Kovatsironi(Speaking with Regard to the Demon from Kovatsironi)Ines Perez de Santos 30. Tsamirimenta(The Curassow Crest Stone)Moises Santos Rojas 31. Maninkaroite(The Invisible Women)Moises Santos Rojas 32. Ashitarori otzishipaye(Masters of the Hills)Elena Nestor de Capurro, with Victoria Manchi de Martin 33. Inkaari Chorinkaveni(Lake Churingaveni)Moises Santos Rojas 34. Chorinkaveni(Churingaveni)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa
Part 3. Ritual
35. Ampinateri Pava(What We Will Offer to Pava)Clelia Mishari, with Gregorio Santos Perez 36. Kamenantsi(Traditional Advice)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 37. Tsika okantya ashimaapakotantyari(How to Be a Good Fisherman)Gregorio Santos Perez 38. Yamaniri pava impereta(They Were Worshipping the Stone Divinity)Delia Rosas Rodriguez 39. Arika ashimaatya(When We Fish)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 40. Ookantyarori inkani(How to Chase Away Rain)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 41. Shinavaite ovariri atziri(Shinavaite Who Ate People)Abdias Caleb Quinchori 42. Okonaatantakari mavira(How Mavira Appeared)Luis Mauricio Rosa, with Raul Martin Bernata and Victoria Manchi de Martin 43. MaviraElena Nestor de Capurro 44. MaviraInes Perez de Santos and Moises Santos Rojas 45. Pavankiri ooria(Solar Deity)Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb 46. Iyovapajirika ooriatsiri(When the Sun Comes Out)Paulina Garcia Nate 47. Ipantsakoitziri kashiri(They Sing about the Moon)Paulina Garcia Nate 48. Arika antarote kooya(When a Girl Had Her First Menses)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 49. Aavakantsi(Taking a Spouse)Gregorio Santos Perez 50. Kamaki aparoni atziri(When a Person Died)Delia Rosas Rodriguez 51. Ikantakota sheripiari pairani(About Shamans Who Existed in the Past)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 52. Sheripiari Julio Quintsori(Shaman Julio Quintsori)Frida Thomas Huaman 53. Impantsakoteri isherini(He Will Sing about His Tobacco)Paulina Garcia Nate 54. Yantavairi sheripiari(Shaman's Work)Moises Santos Rojas 55. Sheripiari(Shaman)Ines Perez de Santos 56. Okantakota matsitantsi(About Witchcraft)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 57. Ochonkiri Abdias(She Steam-Bathed Abdias)Maria Virginia Lopez, Abdias Caleb Quinchori, Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb, and Victorina Rosas de Castro 58. Antavairi aavintantzinkaro(Healer's Work)Luzmila Machari Quinchori
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Ideophones Used by the Narrators Notes Glossary References Index