The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world /
Smith, Nigel J. H., 1949-
The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world / Nigel J.H. Smith. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.
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.
"Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
English.
0813018714 (electronic bk.) 9780813018713 (electronic bk.)
SPKT330203
95045626
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.
Regenwouden.
Mythos
Natur
Folklore--Amazonie.
Écologie humaine--Amazonie.
Indiens--Folklore.--Amazonie
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Amazon River Region.
Amazonegebied.
Amazonastiefland
Electronic books.
Folklore.
Electronic books.
GR133.A43 / S65 1996eb
398/.0981/1
The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world / Nigel J.H. Smith. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.
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.
"Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
English.
0813018714 (electronic bk.) 9780813018713 (electronic bk.)
SPKT330203
95045626
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.
Regenwouden.
Mythos
Natur
Folklore--Amazonie.
Écologie humaine--Amazonie.
Indiens--Folklore.--Amazonie
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Amazon River Region.
Amazonegebied.
Amazonastiefland
Electronic books.
Folklore.
Electronic books.
GR133.A43 / S65 1996eb
398/.0981/1