Foxboy - Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories

Informationen zum Autor Catherine J. Allen is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. She is the author of The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. She received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 for her research on cultural patterning in Andean art. Klappentext With a powerful, erotic, and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative, Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values. Visually, the interior design of the book is attractive, with small illustrations, explanatory insets, and changes in typeface clearly organizing and marking multiple modes of oral performance and scholarly discourse. The University of Texas Press is to be lauded for recognizing the need to print the book in this fashion...As such, Foxboy is highly commendable.--Juan Eduardo Wolf, Indiana University"Journal of Folklore Research" (12/12/2012) Zusammenfassung With a powerful! erotic! and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative! Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values. Inhaltsverzeichnis FringeBeginningI. A Married CoupleII. A Fox!III. Inner ThreadsIV. Strange SpousesV. Listening To NumbersVI. Chayrí? And Then?VII. At The Base Of A BoulderVIII. House Of Damned SoulsIX. Cannibal LoverX. MamachaXI. Inside OutReturningFringe

Product details

• Authors: Catherine J Allen, Catherine J. Allen
• Assisted by: Julia Meyerson (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9780292726673
• ISBN: 978-0-292-72667-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology