By Sharon Barcan Elswit
One in a chain of folklore reference publications (“...an precious resource...”—School Library Journal), this publication positive factors summaries and assets of 470 stories instructed in Mexico, valuable the USA and South the USA, a zone underrepresented in collections of worldwide folklore. the quantity sends clients to the easiest tales retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and greater than seventy five indigenous tribes from 21 international locations. The stories are grouped into themed sections with an in depth topic index.
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