Folktales of the Amazon

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

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

Publication Date: Nov 30, 2008

Number of Pages: 172 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1591586747

ISBN-13: 9781591586746