So Wise Were Our Elders: Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá - Paperback

by John Holmes McDowell (Author)

""""So wise were our elders!"""" Thus exclaims Mariano Chicunque, himself an elder, expressing in a single phrase the thrust of the mythic narrative tradition he simultaneously presents and represents in his storytelling. A remarkable body of mythology is documented for the first time in this volume. John Homes McDowell's study revolves around thirty-two mythic narratives of the Kamsá Indians who live in the Sibundoy Valley of the Colombian Andes, collected by the author from several renowned Kam

Author Biography

John Holmes McDowell is professor of folklore and former director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.