Schackt Jon, A people of stories in the forest of myth: the Yukuna of Miritiparaná
Yukuna means « stories ». Yukuna consider themselves caretakers of an oral tradition « left behind by some mythical Yukuna, more “real” than them » (p. 28). Everything in the present takes its significance and potency from what is known about its origin and past. But ancestral authority is both abs...
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Journal de la Société des américanistes
2015
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