So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá by McDowell, John Holmes

So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160368)

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So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá by McDowell, John Holmes

So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá

$30.00
So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá by McDowell, John Holmes

So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá

$30.00
Format: 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 Kamsá Indians who live in the Sibundoy Valley of the Colombian Andes, collected by the author from several renowned Kam

Author: John Holmes McDowell
ISBN-10: 0813160367
ISBN-13: 9780813160368
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
By John Holmes McDowell
By John Holmes McDowell
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John Holmes McDowell is professor of folklore and former director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.

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