Story of the rabbit
Cuento de conejo
Object Details
| Subject Language | Zoque, Soteapan |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119503 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Kwento de kooya |
| Language of Indigenous Title | poi |
| Title | Story of the rabbit |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Mexico |
| Place Created | Soteapan, Veracruz |
| Date Created | 1993 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Transcription and translation of one particular storytelling performance among native speakers of the Sierra Popoluca language residing in the southern Mexican village of Soteapan, Veracruz. The Kwento de kooya or "Story of the Rabbit" presented here incorporates regional motifs typically associated with "tar baby" stories through Mexico and is similar to trickster tales found in many parts of the world. More than two thousand speakers of the Sierra Popoluca language reside in the municipal center of Soteapan, Veracruz, and share a lifestyle organized to a large extent around subsistence production of maize. The trickster Rabbit whose adventures form the heart of this narrative is a favorite protagonist in the narrative accounts of Sierra Popoluca sto rytellers. The wisdom imparted through this performance is largely concerned with learning to appreciate the importance of Rabbit's role as trickster in responding to a basic conflict between the needs of the individual and those of the community at larg e. Thematically, emphasis on social norms associated with the distribution of maize can be seen to reflect an ongoing effort to resolve the moral implications of changing times while continuing to maintain an essentially Sierra Popoluca way of life. The English version of Kwento de Kooya was orignially published in Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking by Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000, by Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer. |
| Genres | Narrative |
| Source Note | |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Gutiérrez Santiago, Reina (Translator) Ramírez Felipe, Apolinar (Speaker) Sammons, Kay (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
Media Files
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| POI001R001I001.wav | 1 | |
| POI001R001I001.pdf | application/pdf | 1 |
| POI001R001I001.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
