Author : Martin Gusinde
Release : 1977
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 996/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians by : Martin Gusinde
Download or read book Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians written by Martin Gusinde. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixty-six narratives of this volume represent the treasure of folk literature of the Yamana Indians of Tierra del Fuego. The narratives were collected by Father Martin Gusinde in the 1920s and published in his classical study Die Feuerland-Indianer. The Yamana are now extinct. Folk literature of the Yamana Indians preserves the rich oral art, otherwise irrecoverably lost, of one of the most ancient aboriginal peoples of America.