Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Cuentos Costeños
Editors' Introductory Essay
George List's Introduction
The Stories
1. Mártara
2. The Little Goat
3. Of Aunt Vixen with Uncle Jaguar
4. The Excursion of Rabbit
5. The Pig Who Made Much Fun of the Donkey
6. A Humorous Tale of Rabbit
7. When Jaguar Wanted to Fight with Rabbit
8. The Man
9. Uncle Rabbit and Aunt Jaguar's Seven Children
10. Uncle Rabbit and Uncle Alligator
11. The Rabbit Who Wanted to be the Largest Animal in the World
12. The Cunning of Rabbit
13. The Saddling of Jaguar
14. When Rabbit Lost
15. Uncle Rabbit's Field
16. Rabbit and Vixen's Saloon
17. The Man Who Gathered Honey
18. The Quarrel Between Cock and Vixen
19. The Marriage of Monkey and Frog
20. Uncle Rabbit's Ears
21. When the Sun Baptized the Bat
Typology and Cultural Analysis / Hasan M. El-Shamy
Agradecimientos Cuentos Costeños
Ensayo Introductorio de los Editores
Introducción de George List
Los Cuentos
1. Mártara
2. El chivito
3. De Tía Zorra con Tío Tigre
4. La excursión del Conejo
5. El puerco que se burlaba mucho del burro
6. Chiste de Conejo
7. Cuando Tigre quiso pelear con Conejo
8. El hombre
9. Tió Conejo y los siete hijos de Tía Tigra
10. Tío Conejo y Tío Caimán
11. El conejo que quería ser el hombre más grande del mundo
12. La astucia de Conejo
13. La ensillada de Tigre
14. Cuento en que Conejo pierde
15. La roza de Tío Conejo
16. La cantina de Conejo y Zorra
17. El sacador de miel
18. La querella de Zorra con Gallo
19. El matrimonio de Machín con Rana
20. Las orejas de Tío Conejo
21. Cuando el sol bautizó al murcielago
Index

About the Author

George List (1911-2008) was Director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1954 until his retirement in 1976. He is credited with helping to develop the Ethnomusicology Program at Indiana University and establishing the Archives of Traditional Music as a major holding of recorded sound. His published works include Music and Poetry in a Colombian Village: A Tri-Cultural Heritage.
John Holmes McDowell is Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is author of ¡Corrido! The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast and Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica, and author (with Francisco Tandioy-Jansasoy and Eduardo Wolf) of Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia. He is editor of Special Publications of the Folklore Institute and the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.
Juan Sebastián Rojas E. is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He has conducted research about Afro-Colombian musical traditions, music and conflict transformation, the institutionalization of traditions, the culture industries, and musical archivistics.