Title Stories from Quechan oral literature / told by Rosita Carr, John Comet, Jessie Webb Escalante, Mary Kelly Escalanti, Josefa Hartt, Tom Kelly, Anonymous ; translated by Barbara Levy, George Bryant, Millie Romero, Amy Miller ; linquistic work by A.M. Halpern and Amy Miller

Published Cambridge, U.K. : Open Book Publishers, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 533 pages) : portraits Series World oral literature series ; volume 6 World oral literature series ; v. 6. Contents Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The man who bothered ants -- Two stories about the orphan boy and the monster -- Xarathó -- Three stories about Kwayúu -- Three stories about Old Lady Sanyuuxáv -- ́Aavém Kwasám Summary "The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers' own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into "story complexes", that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. In presenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Yuma language and English Print version record Subject Yuma Indians -- Folklore Yuma language. Indians of North America -- Arizona. Indians of North America -- California. American indigenous languages. Anthropology. Folklore, myths and legends. Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge. Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography. Society and culture: general. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Indians of North America. Yuma Indians. Yuma language. Arizona. California. Genre/Form Folklore. Form Electronic book Author Miller, Amy, 1961- ISBN 9781909254879 1909254878 9781909254886 1909254886 9781909254893 1909254894 1783740930 9781783740932 1909254851 9781909254855 2821876173 9782821876170

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