How people came to grow old and die
Como gente vinieron a ponerse viejo y morirse
Object Details
| Subject Language | Quechua, Pastaza |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119502 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | How people came to grow old and die |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Ecuador |
| Place Created | Puyo, Pastaza Province |
| Date Created | 1988-03-00 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | This is a mythic narrative. Quechua has a narrative style which is distinctive from conversational Quechua in a way that is similar to the difference between ordinary speech and speech adapted for the reading of stories out loud in English. When reading a story there are special prosodic contours used to frame the story as a special (in this case, literacy-based) performance. In the same way, Quechua myths are told with special prosodic conventions which frame the narrative as mythic. The very first line of this story has one such convention in the form of an especially notable pitched pronounciation of the word apa "old woman." |
| Genres | Narrative |
| Source Note | |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Nuckolls, Janis B. (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
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| QVZ003R001I001.pdf | application/pdf | 1 |
| QVZ003R001I001.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
