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On the Interpretation of South American Folklore

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FOLK LITERATURE OF THE SELKNAM INDIANS. By WILBERTJOHANNES. (LOS Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles Latin American Center, 1975. Pp. 266. $8.95.)

FOLK LITERATURE OF THE YAMANA INDIANS. Edited by WILBERTJOHANNES. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 319. $12.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Elmer S. Miller*
Affiliation:
Temple University
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Abstract

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Books in Review
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

References

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Wilbert, Johannes 1970 Folk Literature of the Warao Indians. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Studies Series, Vol. 15, Latin American Center.Google Scholar