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Vom Roroima Zum Orinoco: Volume 2, Mythen Und Legenden Der Taulipang-Und Arekuna-Indianer: Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Nordbrasilien Und Venezuela in De
Contributor(s): Koch-Grünberg, Theodor (Author)
ISBN: 0511704534     ISBN-13: 9780511704536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Language: German
Published: October 2010
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- Social Science | Anthropology - General
Series: Cambridge Library Collection: Linguistics (Audio)
 
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Theodor Koch-Gr nberg (1872-1924) was a noted German ethnologist and explorer whose work on the indigenous peoples of Brazil and Venezuela is still consulted today. His most important publication was this five-volume account of his expedition of 1911-1913 from the sandstone mountains bordering Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana through uncharted territory westwards to the Orinoco. Volume 2 contains the myths and legends Koch-Gr nberg recorded among the Pemon Indians, who were speakers of Taulip ng (Taurepan) and Arekun (Arecuna). These two important Cariban languages are closely related, and are still spoken by several thousand people in the Roroima mountains. Koch-Gr nberg's consultants were M seu pu, a young Arecuna shaman, and Mayulua pu the son of a famous Taurepan story-teller. Mayulua pu was fluent in Portuguese and provided the author with explanations of the stories, of which 50 are recorded in German versions and eleven in the original language with German glosses.