Folk Literature of the Selknam Indians: Martin Gusinde's Collection of Selknam Narratives
1975u0709Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1975. Folk literature of the Onawo or Ona people of the southern end of South America as collected during four expeditions from 1918-1924 by a missionary priest from Austria who had studied ethnology & anthropology at Mödlingen and Vienna; the tribe numbering less than 300 at Gusinde's first contact was effectively extinct by mid-century obliterated by disease and white settlers. Gusinde the missionary remains well-regarded for his anthropological work first published in German from 1931-1974. One of the publisher's series on the oral traditions of South American Indians. Hardcover as pictured; jacket missing. Light wear to book corners a bit rubbed & bumped no jacket. Text clean; xi blank 266 pages; bibliography glossary motif indices maps portraits of Gusinde and his main informant Tenenésk. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. UCLA Latin American Center Publications Hardcover
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