The enchanted Amazon rain forest : stories from a vanishing world / Nigel J.H. Smith. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Nigel J. H., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Amazon River Region.

Folklore.

Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Folklore.

Indians of South America.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Amazon River Region.

Nature.

Folklore--Amazon River Valley.

Human ecology--Amazon River Valley.

Human ecology.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 194 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-184) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-1871-4