Folktales of the Amazon by Galeano, Juan Carlos

Folktales of the Amazon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781591586746)

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Format: Hardcover
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Folktales of the Amazon by Galeano, Juan Carlos

Folktales of the Amazon

$60.00
Folktales of the Amazon by Galeano, Juan Carlos

Folktales of the Amazon

$60.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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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.

Author: Juan Carlos Galeano
ISBN-10: 1591586747
ISBN-13: 9781591586746
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2008
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 69
By Juan Carlos Galeano
By Juan Carlos Galeano
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Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet, translator and filmmaker who has worked extensively in the Amazon basin. He grew up in the Amazon region of Colombia and is a professor at Florida State University.

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