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Mindlin, Betty.
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Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Rondônia (State) -- Folklore.
Tales -- Brazil -- Rondônia (State)
Sex -- Folklore
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Mindlin, Betty.
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Barbecued husbands :...
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Barbecued husbands : and other stories from the Amazon / Betty Mindlin and indigenous storytellers ; translated by Donald Slatoff.
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Mindlin, Betty.
London ; New York : Verso, 2002.
Subjects
Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Rondônia (State) -- Folklore.
Tales -- Brazil -- Rondônia (State)
Sex -- Folklore
ISBN:
1859846815 :
Description:
viii, 310 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Botxatoniã, the women of the rainbow -- The ghost lover and the girl with the giant clitoris -- Akaké, a groom with three cocks -- The koman song (the frog song), or the women who barbecued and devoured their husbands -- The women without men, the Amazons, the Kaledjaa-Ipeb, the black women -- The great snake, awanda, the boa constrictor -- Akarandek, the flying head, or the ravenous wife -- The unlucky hunter, or the tree-lover -- The Txopokod's balls, the ashes of the invisible.
When children were born from their mothers' toenails -- The Pleiades, Watxuri -- The prick made of muiratinga wood and the frog, páapap -- Menstruation, the sibling lovers, the moon, and genipap -- The Tapir's wife -- The Txopokod orphan -- The offended wife, the flight to a macaw husband, and the height of Brazill net trees -- The woman who love to her son-in-law -- Wakotutxé piõ, the mutilated lover -- Peniom and the winged bride -- Piron, the Blue Tinamou.
Pawatü, the headhunters -- The Pawatü massacre the Tupari -- Akiã, the Tupari woman who was mutilated by the Pawatü -- Piripidpit, the maiden whom the men devoured -- Independence and torture -- The men's menstruation -- Kempãi, the woman with only one breast -- The clay woman -- The ghost baby's nanny -- The young woman who took a ghost / epaitsit lover -- The old woman who are young boys -- The Cobra-cega's lover -- The clay pecker -- The king vulture's rival, or the crazy horny girl.
The Caburé and the Musician Wren, or the deceived bride -- The dead husband -- The man with the long cock -- The moon -- The brother and sister raised by the jaguar -- The enchanted girl -- The snake-husband -- The gluttonous wife -- Tororõi, the frog -- Nangueretá, the flying head -- The greedy wife -- Watirinoti, the fox of olden times, or the revenge -- Kero-opeho, the castrated man, the man who turned into a woman -- Djikontxerô, the flying head.
Tiwawá, the evening star and Kurawatin-ine, the morning star, or the brother-in-law's lover -- Nerutë Upahë -- Nekohon, the Pico-de-jaca snake husband -- Pakuredjerui aoné, the men who ate their own shit, or the men without women -- Bedjabziá, the master of the wasps -- Berewekoronti, the cruel husband, and the unfaithful wives -- The Tapir -- Pakukawa Djeparia, the Macucao bird -- The woman-pot -- The woman who made love to a stick, and the land turtle husband.
The Tapir, Namwii Hoa, or the men without women -- Wãnzei warandé, the women who went away -- The white anthill -- The severed head -- The monkey -- The queen of the bees -- Zakorobkap, the fly -- Djapé, the arrowhead, the man who at his wives -- Serek-Á, the mermaid -- Love in the indigenous mythology of Rondônia: an anthology -- A commentary on Barbecued Husbands -- Seduction -- The eternal battle of the sexes.
The Amazons: women without men -- Women and excess -- The dead husband -- Dead before death -- Passion and transgression.
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