abstract
This work is composed by the bilingual translation of the myth-song Wenía from the Marubo, a Panoan-speaking people of Vale do Javari Indigenous Reservation, Brazil. The annotated translation, which presents the origins of Marubo ancestors, is preceded by an introductory essay on the conceptual problems involved in the narrative, such as metaphor, formulaic composition, classification and etiology, all of them essential to the understanding of Marubo's processes of ethnogenesis and shamanistic poetics.
Keywords:
narrative; translation; classification; metaphor; indigenous literature