ISBN:
0813018714
,
9780813018713
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 194 p.)
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Enchanted Amazon rain forest
DDC:
398.09811
Keywords:
Folklore Amazon River Region
;
Indians of South America Folklore
;
Amazon River Region
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Amazon River Region
;
Amazon River Region
;
Folklore
;
Indians of South America Folklore
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Folklore
;
Indians of South America Folklore
;
Folklore
;
Indians of South America
;
Nature ; Effect of human beings on
;
Regenwouden
;
Mythos
;
Natur
;
Folklore ; Amazonie
;
Écologie humaine ; Amazonie
;
Indiens ; Amazonie ; Folklore
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Anthropology
;
Social Sciences
;
Folklore
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology
;
Folklore
;
Amazon River Region
;
Amazonegebied
;
Amazonastiefland
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books Folklore
Abstract:
"Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
Abstract:
1. Lore and Land in Transition -- 2. Forests, Rivers, and Minerals -- 3. People and Place -- 4. Goblins, Ghosts, and Hunters -- 5. Submerged Spirits -- 6. A Hex on Hunters and Fishermen -- 7. Perilous Flesh -- 8. Evil Eye -- 9. Trees, Treasure, and Treachery -- 10. Haunted Streets -- 11. The Changing Panorama -- Appendix 1. Checklist of Scientific and Common Names of Plants -- Appendix 2. Checklist of Scientific and Common Names of Animals -- Appendix 3. Game Considered Reimoso by Fifty-nine Colonists along the Transamazon Highway, Brazil, 1978-1979 -- Appendix 4. Fish Considered Reimoso by Fifty-eight Fishermen in the Vicinity of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, 1977 -- Appendix 5. Some Supernatural Entities in the Cosmology of Rural People in the Brazilian Amazon, with Their Habitat, Function, and Danger to Humans.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-184) and index. - Description based on print version record
