TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Nigel J.H.
TI  - The enchanted Amazon rain forest: stories from a vanishing world 
SN  - 0813018714
AV  - GR133.A43 S65 1996eb
U1  - 398/.0981/1 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Amazon River Region
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Amazonie
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Folklore & Mythology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Regenwouden
KW  - gtt
KW  - Mythos
KW  - gnd
KW  - Natur
KW  - ram
KW  - Indiens
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Amazonegebied
KW  - Amazonastiefland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "Insightful work, written for a popular audience, offers reader a general understanding of the region"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=54697
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