An Inquiry into the Animism and folk lore of Guiana Indians

Auteur Walter E Roth

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ISBN

9781460982181

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Walter E Roth

Uitgeverij

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Jaar van uitgifte

2011

Aantal pagina’s

264

Waar gaat het over?

When, some seven years ago, I took up the duties of stipendiary magistrate, medical officer, and protector of Indians in this mosquito-cursed district of the Pomeroon, I determined upon devoting all my spare time—and there has been plenty of it—to an ethnographical survey of the native tribes of British Guiana, somewhat on the lines I had already followed in the case of North Queensland. As the work progressed, I recognized that, for the proper comprehension of my subject, it was necessary to make inquiry concerning the Indians of Venezuela, Surinam, and Cayenne, with the result that the area to be reviewed comprised practically that portion of the South American continent bounded, roughly speaking, by the Atlantic seaboard, the Orinoco, and the northern limits of the watershed of the Rio Negro, and the lower Amazon; and it was not long before I realized that for the proper study of the Arawaks and the Caribs I had to include that of the now almost extinct Antilleans.

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