So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá

By John Holmes McDowell

Book Overview

""""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 Kams? Indians who live in the Sibundoy Valley of the Colombian Andes, collected by the author from several renowned Kam

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160367
• ISBN13: 9780813160368
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher