Folktales of the Amazon
By: Juan Carlos Galeano ; translated by Rebecca Morgan and Kenneth Watson ; foreword by Michael Uzendoski.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781591586746
Subjects: Tales -- Amazon River Region; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Folklore; Amazon River Region -- Folklore
Genres: Folklore.
Description: Provides folktales from Amazonian fishermen, hunters, lodgers, small plot farm gardeners, and villagers in Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. The kinds of tales are as follows: Tales of origin, Tales about anacondas and boas, Tales about dolphins and other Aquatic Seducers, Tales of beasts and Forest Defenders, Tales of dark and malevolent Shamans, Tales of Punishment for ill behavior, and Tales of special places, plants, and Birds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.