Watunna : an Orinoco creation cycle / Marc de Civrieux ; edited and translated by David M. Guss.
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Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Main library collection Stacks | 299.82 Civ 1997 | Available | T 19151 |
Preface for a New Millennium -- Teller's Preface -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Wanadi (starting p. 19) -- Iureke (starting p. 45) -- Kasenadu (starting p. 83) -- Mominaru (starting p. 95) -- Kuamachi (starting p. 101) -- Makusani (starting p. 117) -- Marahuaka (starting p. 125) -- Wahnatu (starting p. 141) -- Glossary (starting p. 191)
Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, peoples living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present.