Wenía: the emergence of the ancestors ”“

Reading and translation of an Amerindian narrative chant (Marubo, Amazônia Ocidental)

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  • Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2316-4018533

Abstract

This work is composed by the bilingual translation of the myth-song Wenía from the Marubo, a Panoan-speaking people of Vale do Javari Indigenous Reservation, Brazil. The annotated translation, which presents the origins of Marubo ancestors, is preceded by an introductory essay on the conceptual problems involved in the narrative, such as metaphor, formulaic composition, classification and etiology, all of them essential to the understanding of Marubo's processes of ethnogenesis and shamanistic poetics. 

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2017-12-27

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Cesarino, P. de N. (2017). Wenía: the emergence of the ancestors ”“: Reading and translation of an Amerindian narrative chant (Marubo, Amazônia Ocidental). Estudos De Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, (53), 45–99. https://doi.org/10.1590/2316-4018533

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No. 53 (2018): Contemporaneidades ameríndias - Devair Fiorotti e Pedro Mandagará (Org.)

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