Translating native Latin American verbal art
Subtitle: ethnopoetics and ethnography of speaking
By: edited by Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer.
Contributors: Sammons, Kay; Sherzer, Joel.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Indians -- Languages -- Translating into English; Folk literature, Indian -- Latin America -- Translations into English -- History and criticism; Folklore -- Performance; Indians -- Folklore; Folklore -- Latin America
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Don Francisco Mʹarquez's story / Jane H. Hill; title: An Otomʹi story of a Nahual / Yolanda Lastra; title: Replicating key features of poetic construction in Sierra Popoluca storytelling performance / Kay Sammons; title: "The soldiers and Saturnino": a Zoque narrative / Heidi Johnson; title: "The woman and the hawk": a Guayabaleño story / Daniel F. Suslak; title: "The story of Grandfather Puma and Grandfather Possum": a Tzeltal narrative / Brian Stross; title: Co-construction in Tojolab'al conversational narratives: translating cycles, quotes, evaluations, evidentials, and emotions / Jill Brody; title: Parallelism and the spontaneous ritualization of ordinary talk: three Mocho friends discuss a volcano / Laura Martin; title: "Colʹurinhʹe": a Guatuso traditional narrative / Adolfo Constenla Umaña; title: "The way of the cocoa counsel" from the Kuna Indians of Panama / Anselmo Urrutia, Joel Sherzer; title: "The life story of Grandmother Elida": Kuna personal narratives as verbal art / Marta Lucia de Gerdes; title: "Emergence of the non-indigenous peoples": a Warao narrative / Charles L. Briggs; title: From headhunters to writers: a Shuar myth and an oration / Maurizio Gnerre; title: Collaborative ethnopoetics: a view from the Sibundoy Valley / John H. McDowell; title: Spoken in the spirit of a gesture: translating sound symbolism in a Pastaza Quechua narrative / Janis B. Nuckolls; title: "The one who created the sea": tellings, meanings, and intertextuality in the translation of Xavante narrative / Laura R. Graham; title: From the Nawel Ngïtram to "the story of the tiger": issues in the translation of Mapuche verbal art / Lucia A. Golluscio.