Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

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Uncle Rabbit has been gazing longingly at a garden across the river where his favorite foods are planted. Finally, he tricks Old Man Crocodile into giving him a ride to the other side of the river, only to find that he has bitten off more than he can chew!

Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll beautifully recounts the Nahuatl version of Brer Rabbit, one of the most widespread tales of both the Old and New Worlds, in three languages. Told by master storyteller Silvestre Pantalen and illustrated on amate bark paper by Inocencio Jimnez, a selftaught artist from the same village in Guerrero, Mexico, the book tells the story of trickster Uncle Rabbit as he cleverly makes fools out of his eternal adversaries: Old Man Crocodile and the Coyote.

Presented here in Nahuatl alongside English and Spanish translations of the story, Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll shares a beloved tale with intercultural meaning alongside unique, detailed bark paintings and a Nahuatl-English glossary.

Author Bio

Silvestre Pantelen, recently deceased, was from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Augustn Oapan, state of Guerrero, Mexico. Inocencio Jimnez is a self-taught artist also from San Agustn Oapan. He illustrated Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll over the course of 18 months. Jonathan D. Amith is an independent scholar (anthropologist and linguist) who has studied and documented Nahuatl, Mixtec, and Totonac. He recorded, transcribed, and translated this edition of Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll.