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"So Wise Were Our Elders" - Mythic Narratives from the Kamsa (Paperback)
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"So Wise Were Our Elders" - Mythic Narratives from the Kamsa (Paperback)
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"So wise were our elders!" Thus exclaims Mariano Chicunque, himself
an elder, expressing in a single phrase the thrust of the mythic
narrative tradition he simultaneously presents and represents in
his storytelling. A remarkable body of mythology is documented for
the first time in this volume. John Homes McDowell's study revolves
around thirty-two mythic narratives of the Kamsa Indians who live
in the Sibundoy Valley of the Colombian Andes, collected by the
author from several renowned Kamsa storytellers. Each myth is given
in the native language with parallel English translations that seek
to capture the flavor of the original performances. Textual
annotation and commentary assess the grounding of the myths in the
language and culture of the Kamsa indigenous community.
Introductory chapters describe the process of transcription and
translation and highlight important characteristics of the
collection. McDowell stresses the collaborative nature of the
enterprise, which benefits from the shared vision of the
ethnographer and of indigenous consultants who were involved in
every step of the process. The narratives are portrayed as a
residual mythology in transit toward folktale but still evocative
of a traditional cosmos. The myths are much more than inert
"literary" objects, and under McDowell's scrupulous analysis they
emerge as a storehouse of narrative potential whose performances
still have meaning in Kamsa society and culture today. "So Wise
Were Our Elders" is a companion volume to McDowell's Sayings of the
Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Subundoy Indians (1989).
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