Slater, Candace.

Dance of the dolphin : transformation and disenchantment in the Amazonian imagination / Candace Slater. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994. - xi, 314 p., [24] p. de láms.: il. ; 24 cm.

Invitation to the dance -- Time and place -- The storytellers -- Stories and beliefs about dolphins as special fish -- Stories and beliefs about dolphins as supernatural beings -- Questions of performance -- The dolphin as encantado -- The dolphin as lover -- The dolphin as white man -- Transformation and disenchantment.

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Folklore--América Latina
Cuentos de costumbres--Amazonía.
Delfines

GR 133.B7 / B59