Animal tales from the Caribbean / George List ; edited by John Holmes McDowell and Juan Sebastian Rojas E. ; with a typological analysis by Hasan M. El-Shamy.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiii, 239 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Martara -- The little goat -- Of Aunt Vixen with Uncle Jaguar -- The excursion of rabbit -- The pig who made much fun of the donkey -- A humorous tale of rabbit -- When jaguar wanted to fight with rabbit -- The man -- Uncle rabbit and Aunt jaguar's seven children -- Uncle rabbit and Uncle alligator -- The rabbit who wanted to be the largest animal in the world -- The cunning of rabbit -- The saddling of jaguar -- When rabbit lost -- Uncle rabbit's field -- Rabbit and Vixen's saloon -- The man who gathered honey -- The quarrel between cock and vixen -- The marriage of Monkey and Frog -- Uncle rabbit's ears -- When the sun baptized the bat's son --Typology and cultural analysis / Hasan M. El-Shamy. Martara -- El chivito -- De Tia Zorra con Tio Tigre -- La excursion del Conejo -- El puerco que se burlaba mucho del burro -- Chiste de Conejo -- Cuando Tigre quiso pelear con Conejo -- El hombre -- Tio Conejo y los siete hijos de Tia Tigra -- Tio Conejo y Tio Caiman -- El conejo que queria ser el hombre mas grande del mundo -- La astucia de Conejo -- La ensillada de Tigre -- Cuento en que Conejo pierde -- La roza de Tio Conejo -- La cantina de Conejo y Zorra -- El sacador de miel -- La querella de Zorra con Gallo -- El matrimonio de Machin con Rana -- las orejas de Tio Conejo -- Cuando el so le bautizo el hijo al murcielago.
Summary:
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 costenos 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 Sebastian 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.
Series:
Special publications of the Folklore Institute ; No. 9
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.