Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
By Betty Mindlin.
Description
The indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests are on the verge of extinction. It was feared that the narratives which had sustained them over centuries might die with them. Betty Mindlin was determined to record these legends and the result is a startling piece of anthropology. Mindlin, inspired by the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, has shown that what often appears to be the creation of a fantastical, isolated imagination is just a fragment, part of a much larger whole.The stories recounted in Barbecued Husbands are as old as humanity: love and hate, jealousy and revenge, life after dea...
ISBN(s)
1859846815, 9781859846810
