Foxboy: Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories

Catherine J. Allen

Published by University of Texas Press 2011

Foxboy

Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories

Catherine J. Allen
Illustrator: Julia Meyerson

In the series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

https://doi.org/10.7560/723214

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About this book

Once there was a Quechua folktale. It begins with a trickster fox's penis with a will of its own and ends with a daughter returning to parents who cannot recognize her until she recounts the uncanny adventures that have befallen her since she ran away from home. Following the strange twists and turnings of this tale, Catherine J. Allen weaves a narrative of Quechua storytelling and story listening that links these arts to others—fabric weaving, in particular—and thereby illuminates enduring Andean strategies for communicating deeply felt cultural values.

In this masterful work of literary nonfiction, Allen draws out the connections between two prominent markers of ethnic identity in Andean nations—indigenous language and woven cloth—and makes a convincing case that the connection between language and cloth affects virtually all aspects of expressive culture, including the performing arts. As she explores how a skilled storyteller interweaves traditional tales and stock characters into new stories, just as a skilled weaver combines traditional motifs and colors into new patterns, she demonstrates how Andean storytelling and weaving both embody the same kinds of relationships, the same ideas about how opposites should meet up with each other. By identifying these pervasive patterns, Allen opens up the Quechua cultural world that unites story tellers and listeners, as listeners hear echoes and traces of other stories, layering over each other in a kind of aural palimpsest.

Author / Editor information

Catherine J. Allen is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. She is the author of The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. She received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 for her research on cultural patterning in Andean art.

Reviews

Visually, the interior design of the book is attractive, with small illustrations, explanatory insets, and changes in typeface clearly organizing and marking multiple modes of oral performance and scholarly discourse. The University of Texas Press is to be lauded for recognizing the need to print the book in this fashion…As such, Foxboy is highly commendable.

— Journal of Folklore Research

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
FRINGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
BEGINNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER ONE A MARRIED COUPLE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
CHAPTER TWO A FOX! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
CHAPTER THREE INNER THREADS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
CHAPTER FOUR STRANGE SPOUSES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
CHAPTER FIVE LISTENING TO NUMBERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
CHAPTER SIX “CHAYRÍ?” “AND THEN?” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
CHAPTER SEVEN AT THE BASE OF A BOULDER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
CHAPTER EIGHT HOUSE OF DAMNED SOULS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
CHAPTER NINE CANNIBAL LOVER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
CHAPTER TEN MAMACHA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
CHAPTER ELEVEN INSIDE OUT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
RETURNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
FRINGE And that’s about it Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
APPENDIX A “KUNDURMANTA” “About Condor” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
APPENDIX B “UKUKUMANTA” “About Bear” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
APPENDIX C “CH’ASKA WARMI” “Star-wife” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
APPENDIX D “HUALLASMANTA” “About the Huallas” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
APPENDIX E GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION AND GLOSSARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 294

eBook

Published: August 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780292734845