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Author:
Mindlin, Betty.
Title:
Barbecued husbands : and other stories from the Amazon / Betty Mindlin and indigenous storytellers ; translated by Donald Slatoff.
Publisher:
Verso,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
viii, 310 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Indians of South America--Rondônia (State)--Rondônia (State)--Folklore.
Tales--Rondônia (State)--Rondônia (State)
Sex.--Folklore.
Other Titles:
Moqueca de maridos. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284).
Contents:
The Txopokod's balls, the ashes of the invisible. The ghost lover and the girl with the giant clitoris -- Akaké, a groom with three cocks -- The koman song (the frog song), or the women who barbecued and devoured their husbands -- The women without men, the Amazons, the Kaledjaa-Ipeb, the black women -- The great snake, awanda, the boa constrictor -- Akarandek, the flying head, or the ravenous wife -- The unlucky hunter, or the tree-lover -- The Txopokod's balls, the ashes of the invisible.
Piron, the Blue Tinamou. The Pleiades, Watxuri -- The prick made of muiratinga wood and the frog, páapap -- Menstruation, the sibling lovers, the moon, and genipap -- The Tapir's wife -- The Txopokod orphan -- The offended wife, the flight to a macaw husband, and the height of Brazill net trees -- The woman who love to her son-in-law -- Wakotutxé piõ, the mutilated lover -- Peniom and the winged bride -- Piron, the Blue Tinamou.
The king vulture's rival, or the crazy horny girl. The Pawatü massacre the Tupari -- Akiã, the Tupari woman who was mutilated by the Pawatü -- Piripidpit, the maiden whom the men devoured -- Independence and torture -- The men's menstruation -- Kempãi, the woman with only one breast -- The clay woman -- The ghost baby's nanny -- The young woman who took a ghost / epaitsit lover -- The old woman who are young boys -- The Cobra-cega's lover -- The clay pecker -- The king vulture's rival, or the crazy horny girl.
Djikontxerô, the flying head. The dead husband -- The man with the long cock -- The moon -- The brother and sister raised by the jaguar -- The enchanted girl -- The snake-husband -- The gluttonous wife -- Tororõi, the frog -- Nangueretá, the flying head -- The greedy wife -- Watirinoti, the fox of olden times, or the revenge -- Kero-opeho, the castrated man, the man who turned into a woman -- Djikontxerô, the flying head.
The woman who made love to a stick, and the land turtle husband. Nerutë Upahë -- Nekohon, the Pico-de-jaca snake husband -- Pakuredjerui aoné, the men who ate their own shit, or the men without women -- Bedjabziá, the master of the wasps -- Berewekoronti, the cruel husband, and the unfaithful wives -- The Tapir -- Pakukawa Djeparia, the Macucao bird -- The woman-pot -- The woman who made love to a stick, and the land turtle husband.
The eternal battle of the sexes. Wãnzei warandé, the women who went away -- The white anthill -- The severed head -- The monkey -- The queen of the bees -- Zakorobkap, the fly -- Djapé, the arrowhead, the man who at his wives -- Serek-Á, the mermaid -- Love in the indigenous mythology of Rondônia: an anthology -- A commentary on Barbecued Husbands -- Seduction -- The eternal battle of the sexes.
Passion and transgression. Women and excess -- The dead husband -- Dead before death -- Passion and transgression.
ISBN:
9781859846810
1859846815
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50503433
LCCN:
2002033832
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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