Folktales of the Amazon

By Juan Carlos Galeano

Book Overview

Here are forty-one tales gathered from Amazonian fishermen, hunters, lodgers, small plot farm gardeners, and villagers in Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Organized thematically, these tales for mature readers convey messages of kinship bonds and reciprocity, capturing the socialized relationships between peoples, animals, plants, places and a variety of shape-shifting supernatural entities. Often shocking or hair-raising, some of these tales even range into illicit topics, such as cannibalism and psychotropic plants.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591586747
• ISBN13: 9781591586746
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 10.0"