Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in La

Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in La

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The rich storytelling traditi

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor

Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigeno