Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition] |
Description |
1 online resource (502 entries) ; digital files |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301). |
Contents |
Beginnings and balance : earth, sun, moon, night, people, floods, fire, sky, food, music (stories 1-33) -- Journeys to other realms (stories 34-52) -- Winning and losing with the gods (stories 53-85) -- Making bargains, good and bad (stories 86-123) -- The community (stories 124-165) -- Reaching out with kindness (stories 166-179) -- Seeking justice (stories 180-196) -- Punishments and rewards : teaching good and wise behavior (stories 197-231) -- When cultures, classes or species collide (stories 232-265) -- Defenders of the earth (stories 266-289) -- Between husbands and wives (stories 290-311) -- For love (stories 312-348) -- Supernatural seducers (stories 349-364) -- Tricksters and fools (stories 365-415) -- Heroic rescues and magical escapes (stories 416-441) -- Strange and mysterious encounters (stories 442-470) -- Appendix A. Indigenous peoples by country, with alternate names -- Appendix B. Glossary. |
Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
Summary |
This book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Local Note |
Credo Reference Publisher Collections |
Subject |
Tales -- Latin America -- Bibliography.
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Tales. |
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Latin America. |
Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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Subject |
Folklore -- Latin America -- Bibliography.
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Folklore. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Bibliographies.
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Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 0786478950 9780786478958 (DLC) 2015032872 viii, 318 pages |
ISBN |
9780786478958 softcover : acid-free paper |
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9781476622293 ebook |
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9781786841988 electronic version |
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