Birds and beasts of ancient Latin America

Author(s)

• Benson, Elizabeth P.

Bibliographic Information

Birds and beasts of ancient Latin America

Elizabeth P. Benson ; foreword by Susan Milbrath

University Press of Florida, c1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Drawing on an extensive set of images, this text examines the practical, ritual, and mythic importance of animals in pre-Columbian life and thought as well as the meanings that animals still have for the modern descendants of those indigenous peoples.

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Details

• NCID: BA3578017X
• ISBN:
  • 0813015189
• LCCN: 97002976
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Gainesville
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 162 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E59.A7
  • DC21 : 398.24/52/098
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indian art -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Indians -- Ethnozoology
  • LCSH : Indian mythology -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Ethnozoology -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Animals -- Mythology -- Latin America