Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians - Martin Gusinde''s Collection of Yamana Narratives

Informationen zum Autor Johannes Wilbert!  Professor Emeritus! UCLA. Wilbert was a professor of the UCLA Anthropology Department for nearly thirty years (1962 to 1991). For twenty years of his tenure he served as director of the Latin American Center (1963-1978; 1984-1989). Wilbert is a recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (1978). He has been a Research Fellow in Amerindian ethnomedicine of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University (1973-1989). He holds an Honorary Professorship from the Sociedade Brasileira de Instruyiio! Rio de Janeiro (1969) and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1977)! and of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (1990). Klappentext South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. This book contains source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives. Zusammenfassung South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. This book contains source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Gusinde, Johannes Wilbert, Wilbert Johannes
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.1977
• EAN: 9780520032996
• ISBN: 978-0-520-03299-6
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: UCLA Latin American Studies; UCLA Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales