[PDF.95lh] Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World)

Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World)

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 | #994690 in Books |  Center for the Study of World Religions |  1996-08-01 |  1996-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.19 x6.36l,1.58 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| It's all about nookie|By Kimber Haig|I bought this book hoping for a study of the religious beliefs of Indians living in the interior of Brazil. Where did they believe they came from and why are they here? That isn't what this book is about.
The author introduces the reader to four myths the Yurupari Indians tell to explain their social order. Each myth starts out almo|From the Back Cover|During fifty years in Colombia conducting ethnological, archaeological, and linguistic research, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff devoted considerable time to a study of the Tukano Indians of the Northwest . The four texts in this volume, part of th

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff spent much of his life studying the oral culture of the Tukano Indians in the Northwest Amazon, including twenty years simply learning the four key Tukanoan languages. Through his translations and commentaries of the yuruparí fertility mythologem and ritual complex, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought.

The four Tukano "texts" in this volume "speak of emo...

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