| Description |
vi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New World studies |
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New World studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities / A. James Arnold -- Enemies of God: Monsters and the Theology of Conquest / Michael Palencia-Roth -- Who Is the Mightiest of Them All? Jaguar and Conquistador in Piaroa Images of Alterity and Identity / Joanna Overing -- Animal Souls, Co-essences, and Human Destiny in Mesoamerica / Gary H. Gossen -- Coyote, the Thinking (Wo)man's Trickster / Dell H. Hymes -- Lushootseed Animal People: Mediation and Transformation from Myth to History / Jay Miller and Vi Hilbert -- Breaking the Spell: Accounts of Encantados by Descendants of Runaway Slaves / Candace Slater -- Animal Images in Caribbean Hindu Mythology / Brinsley Samaroo -- From Ancestral to Creole: Humans and Animals in a West Indian Scale of Values / Jeremy Poynting -- The Trickster as Triptych / Kandioura Drame -- Animal Tales, Historic Dispossession, and Creole Identity in the French West Indies / A. James Arnold |
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Afterword: Animals, Elemental Tales, and the Theater / Derek Walcott |
| Analysis |
Tales By American Indians |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Animals -- America -- Folklore.
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Human-animal relationships -- America -- Folklore.
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Indians -- Folklore.
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| Author |
Arnold, A. James (Albert James), 1939-
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| LC no. |
95033391 |
| ISBN |
0813916453 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813916461 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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