The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world / Nigel J.H. Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0813018714
- 9780813018713
- 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
- Amazon River Region
- Regenwouden
- Amazonegebied
- Mythos
- Natur
- Amazonastiefland
- Folklore -- Amazonie
- Écologie humaine -- Amazonie
- Indiens -- Amazonie -- Folklore
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences
- Folklore
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- GR133.A43 S65 1996eb
- 74.26
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.
Print version record.
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.
English.
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