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- catalog abstract "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 Amazon. The four texts in this volume, part of the yurupari fertility mythologem and ritual complex, "speak of emotion, paint images, construct sceneries." In Tukanoan oral literature, social organization is explained by its relationship to ecology, the hallucinatory sphere becomes a dimension for conflict resolution, and ritual is shown in its aesthetic perspective. To overcome the barrier presented by the tradition in the Northwest Amazon of autochthonous multilingualism, Reichel-Dolmatoff spent twenty years learning four key Tukanoan languages, thus empowering himself to interpret the multivocal meaning of Tukanoan oral lore through an entirely new reading. He places the analytical study of South American oral art on a par with the great exegetic traditions of the Old World. Tukano texts contain coded culture history and lead into the reality of the meaning of oral traditions - meaning contained in admonitions, instructions, and explanations which constitute fundamental precepts referring to social tradition, conflict resolution, gender attitudes, ecology, and many ethical-aesthetical aspects of human motivations and goals. Through Reichel-Dolmatoff's translations and commentaries, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought.".
- catalog contributor b9565433.
- catalog coverage "Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "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 Amazon. The four texts in this volume, part of the yurupari fertility mythologem and ritual complex, "speak of emotion, paint images, construct sceneries." In Tukanoan oral literature, social organization is explained by its relationship to ecology, the hallucinatory sphere becomes a dimension for conflict resolution, and ritual is shown in its aesthetic perspective. To overcome the barrier presented by the tradition in the Northwest Amazon of autochthonous multilingualism, Reichel-Dolmatoff spent twenty years learning four key Tukanoan languages, thus empowering himself to interpret the multivocal meaning of Tukanoan oral lore through an entirely new reading. He places the analytical study of South American oral art on a par with the great exegetic traditions of the Old World.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index.".
- catalog description "Tukano texts contain coded culture history and lead into the reality of the meaning of oral traditions - meaning contained in admonitions, instructions, and explanations which constitute fundamental precepts referring to social tradition, conflict resolution, gender attitudes, ecology, and many ethical-aesthetical aspects of human motivations and goals. Through Reichel-Dolmatoff's translations and commentaries, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought.".
- catalog extent "xxxviii, 300, [13] p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Yuruparí.".
- catalog identifier "0945454082 (hard cover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Yuruparí.".
- catalog isPartOf "Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Religions of the world".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions : Distributed by Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Yuruparí.".
- catalog spatial "Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil)".
- catalog subject "398.2/089983 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropological linguistics Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil)".
- catalog subject "F2520.1.T9 R46 1996".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil)".
- catalog subject "Shamanism Uaupés River Valley (Colombia and Brazil)".
- catalog subject "Tucano Indians Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Tucano Indians Religion.".
- catalog subject "Tucano language Texts.".
- catalog subject "Tucano mythology.".
- catalog title "Yuruparí : studies of an Amazonian foundation myth / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "Texts. fast".
- catalog type "text".