By Jonathan D. Hill

Made-from-Bone offers the 1st entire set of English translations of narratives concerning the mythic prior and its changes from the indigenous Arawak-speaking Wakuénai of southernmost Venezuela. The relevant personality all through those primordial instances is a trickster-creator, Made-from-Bone, who survives a protracted sequence of life-threatening assaults. rigorously recorded and transcribed via Jonathan D. Hill, those narratives supply students of South the USA and different parts the one ethnographically generated cosmogony of up to date or historical local peoples of South America.

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