The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world /

"Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Nigel J. H., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Temas:
Folklore > Amazon River Region.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Folklore.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Amazon River Region.
Folklore > Amazonie.
Écologie humaine > Amazonie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore
Indians of South America
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Mythos
Natur
Regenwouden.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Indiens > Amazonie > Folklore.
Amazon River Region
Amazonastiefland
Amazonegebied.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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