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On the Interpretation of South American Folklore

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FOLK LITERATURE OF THE SELKNAM INDIANS. By WILBERT JOHANNES. (LOS Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles Latin American Center, 1975. Pp. 266. $8.95.)
FOLK LITERATURE OF THE YAMANA INDIANS. Edited by WILBERT JOHANNES. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 319. $12.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Elmer S. Miller
Elmer S. Miller*
Affiliation:
Temple University
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Books in Review
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , 1979 , pp. 247 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

References

Metraux, Alfred 1946 Toba and Pilagá Myths. Philadelphia, Penna.: American Philosophical Society.Google Scholar
Miller, Elmer S. 1975 “Shamans, Power Symbols and Change in Argentine Toba Culture.” American Ethnologist 2(3):477–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, Stith 1955–1958 Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. 6 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Wilbert, Johannes 1970 Folk Literature of the Warao Indians. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Studies Series, Vol. 15, Latin American Center.Google Scholar