UPPER PERENE ARAWAK NARRATIVES OF HISTORY, LANDSCAPE, & RITUAL

Covers a range of themes in the Alto Perene oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Each original text in Alto Perene is accompanied by an English translation, and each theme is introduced with an essay. Illus.