TRANSLATINGNATIVE LATINAMERICANVERBAL ARTEthnopoetics andEthnography of Speaking

Edited by Kay Sammonsand Joel Sherzer

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESSWashington and London

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS vii

INTRODUCTION xiKay Sammons and Joel Sherzer

DON FRANCISCO MARQUEZ'S STORY lJane H. Hill

AN OTOMf STORY OF A NAHUAL 13Yolanda Lastra

REPLICATING KEY FEATURES OF POETIC CONSTRUCTION INSIERRA POPOLUCA STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE 22

Kay Sammons \

"THE SOLDIERS AND SATURNINO": A ZOOUE NARRATIVE 42Heidijohnson

"THE WOMAN AND THE HAWK": A GUAYABALENO STORY 56Daniel F. Suslak

"THE STORY OF GRANDFATHER PUMA AND GRANDFATHERPOSSUM": A TZELTAL NARRATIVE 69

Brian Stross

CO-CONSTRUCTION IN TOJOLAB'AL CONVERSATIONALNARRATIVES: TRANSLATING CYCLES, QUOTES, EVALUATIONS,EVIDENTIALS, AND EMOTIONS 86

Jill Brody

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PARALLELISM AND THE SPONTANEOUS RITUALIZATIONOF ORDINARY TALK: THREE MOCHO FRIENDS DISCUSS AVOLCANO 104

Laura Martin

"COLURINHE": A GUATUSO TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE 125Adolfo Constenla Umana

"THE WAY OF THE COCOA COUNSEL" FROM THE KUNA INDIANSOF PANAMA 141

Anselmo Urrutia and Joel Sherzer

"THE LIFE STORY OF GRANDMOTHER ELIDA": KUNA PERSONALNARRATIVES AS VERBAL ART 158

Marta Lucia de Gerdes

"EMERGENCE OF THE NON-INDIGENOUS PEOPLES'": A WARAONARRATIVE 174

Charles L. Briggs

FROM HEADHUNTERS TO WRITERS: A SHUAR MYTH AND ANORATION 197

Maurizio Gnerre

COLLABORATIVE ETHNOPOETICS: A VIEW FROM THE SIBUNDOYVALLEY 211

John H. McDowell

SPOKEN IN THE SPIRIT OF A GESTURE: TRANSLATING SOUNDSYMBOLISM IN A PASTAZA QUECHUA NARRATIVE 233

Janis B. Nuckolls

"THE ONE WHO CREATED THE SEA": TELLINGS, MEANINGS,AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE TRANSLATION OF XAVANTENARRATIVE 252

Laura R. Graliam

FROM THE NAWEL 1SGITRAM TO "THE STORY OF THE TIGER":ISSUES IN THE TRANSLATION OF MAPUCHE VERBAL ART 272

Lucia A. Golluscio

REFERENCES 295

INDEX 307