Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticas de Arte Prize. The indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests are no-longer on the verge of extinction, but their culture is under threat. Fearing that the narratives which had sustained them over centuries might die with, Betty Mindlin was determined to record these legends and the result is a startling piece of anthropology. Inspired by the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, mindlin has shown that what often appears to be the creation of a fantastical, isolated imagination is just a fragment, part of a much larger whole. The stories recounted in Barbecued Husbands are as old as humanity: love and hate, jealousy and revenge, life after death, totems and taboos, erotic solitude, romantic love, mothers and daughters, masculinity. All this is discussed with an openness that would surprise a Western psychoanalyst. Most of the stories were narrated by tribespeople in their own languages and the translations were carefully checked with them before they appeared in print. The collaboration between the author and the narrator is close throughout, making this book a unique document and an important reference work. Reading like a novel, this is an oral history suffused with magic realism.
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""A rich mythology has been gathered from peoples about whom we knew nothing ... an impressive collection that will rank among the great classics of Amerindian mythology. I enjoyed it very much."" -- Claude Levi-Strauss
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A Guerra dos Pinguelos
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By Lawrence Waldron
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If you are used to reading the scholarly and somewhat sanitized versions of Amerindian myths, after they have been filtered through the structuralist mainframe, you'll either be scandalized or deliciously surprised by these tales mostly from the southwestern Amazon. As amusing as the title is, this book's original title was even more so: a Guerra dos Pinguelos...(in Brazilian Portuguese, the word "Pinguelo" is the very epitome of the double entendre). Betty Mindlin has assembled here candid, 'profane' renditions of the profound Amazonian mythos as it might be delivered by raconteurs, not to bespectacled strangers and/or mixed (gender) audiences, but to members of one's own clan, perhaps by the fireside, after a fair share of chicha. Read it to your anthropology class. Read it to your lover in bed. Read it out loud in public...start your own fire.
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Good read for the imaginative
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By Kat Marie
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This compilation of tales is quite vivid, a little disturbing and a little ridiculous. But enjoyable, like reading about various mythologies.
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