ISBN:
9780253031174
,
0253031176
Language:
English
,
Spanish
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Special publications of the Folklore Institute No. 9
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als List, George, 1911-2008 Animal tales from the Caribbean
Keywords:
Tales
;
Folklore
;
Animals Folklore
;
Black people Social life and customs
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Animaux - Folklore
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Folklore & Mythology
;
Animals
;
Black people - Social life and customs
;
Folklore
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Manners and customs
;
Tales
;
Folklore
;
Atlantic Coast (Colombia) Social life and customs
;
Colombia - Atlantic Coast
Abstract:
These 21 animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories told during all-night funerary wakes, a ritual shared in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes. Such wakes also include other aesthetic and expressive practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. Situated within their performance contexts, the stories represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge that, for centuries, has been preserved and cultivated by African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long fieldwork among the rural costeños in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a research team, transcribed and translated them into English before his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan Sebastián Rojas E. bring this previously unpublished manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and translations, addtional cultural context through a new introduction, and a further typological and cultural analysis by Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories, allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional telling of the tales for themselves. -- from back cover
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Animal Tales from the Caribbean; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Agradecimientos; Editors' Introductory Essay; George List's Introduction; The Stories; 1. Mártara; 2. The Little Goat; 3. Of Aunt Vixen with Uncle Jaguar; 4. The Excursion of Rabbit; 5. The Pig Who Made Much Fun of the Donkey; 6. A Humorous Tale of Rabbit; 7. When Jaguar Wanted to Fight with Rabbit; 8. The Man; 9. Uncle Rabbit and Aunt Jaguar's Seven Children; 10. Uncle Rabbit and Uncle Alligator; 11. The Rabbit Who Wanted to Be the Largest Animal in the World; 12. The Cunning of Rabbit
Description / Table of Contents:
13. The Saddling of Jaguar14. When Rabbit Lost; 15. Uncle Rabbit's Field; 16. Rabbit and Vixen's Saloon; 17. The Man Who Gathered Honey; 18. The Quarrel between Cock and Vixen; 19. The Marriage of Monkey and Frog; 20. Uncle Rabbit's Ears; 21. When the Sun Baptized the Bat's Son; Typology and Cultural Analysis; Ensayo Introductorio de los Editores; Introducción de George List; Los Cuentos; 1. Mártara; 2. El chivito; 3. De Tía Zorra con Tío Tigre; 4. La excursión del Conejo; 5. El puerco que se burlaba mucho del burro; 6. Chiste de Conejo; 7. Cuando Tigre quiso pelear con Conejo; 8. El hombre
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Tío Conejo y los siete hijos de Tía Tigra10. Tío Conejo y Tío Caimán; 11. El conejo que quería ser el hombre más grande del mundo; 12. La astucia de Conejo; 13. La ensillada de Tigre; 14. Cuento en que Conejo pierde; 15. La roza de Tío Conejo; 16. La cantina de Conejo y Zorra; 17. El sacador de miel; 18. La querella de Zorra con Gallo; 19. El matrimonio de Machín con Rana; 20. Las orejas de Tío Conejo; 21. Cuando el sol le bautizó el hijo al murciélago
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Tales in both English and Spanish; commentary in English
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