Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle

Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, peoples living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present.

Author: Marc De Civrieux
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 235
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780292715899

About the Author
David Guss teaches anthropology at Tufts University and is an associate of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University.Marc de Civrieux, a French-born paleontologist, has conducted ethnographicresearch throughout Venezuela sin