AN INQUIRY INTO THE ANIMISM AND FOLK-LORE OF THE GUIANA INDIANS - Index
Native American South American
ARAWAK DOCTORS' BENCHES
FROM UPPER MORUCA RIVER
A.—WITH ALLIGATOR AND TIGER (JAGUAR) HEADS
B.—WITH HEAD AND TAIL OF MACAW; REMAINDER OF BODY PAINTED ON SEAT
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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians |
By Walter E. Roth |
from the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1908-1909, pp. 103-386 |
[Washington D.C., 1915] |
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| Title Page |
| Dedication |
| PREFACE |
| CONTENTS |
| MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES |
| ILLUSTRATIONS |
| WORKS OF REFERENCE |
| I. | NO EVIDENCE OF BELIEF IN A SUPREME BEING |
| II. | TRIBAL HEROES |
| III. | TRACES OF SPIRIT, IDOL, AND FETISH CULT |
| IV. | CREATION OF MAN, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS |
| V. | THE BODY AND ITS ASSOCIATED SPIRITS |
| VI. | DREAMS; IDIOCY |
| VII. | FAMILIAR SPIRITS |
| VIII. | THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: NATURAL HISTORY |
| IX. | THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: ANIMALS AS SENTIENT HUMAN BEINGS |
| X. | THE SPIRITS OF THE BUSH: ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULAR PLANTS |
| XI. | THE SPIRITS OF THE MOUNTAIN |
| XII. | THE SPIRITS OF THE WATER |
| XIII. | THE SPIRITS OF THE SKY |
| XIV. | OMENS, CHARMS, TALISMANS |
| XV. | RESTRICTIONS ON GAME AND FOOD, VISION, ARTS AND CRAFTS, NOMENCLATURE (TABOOS) |
| XVI. | SEXUAL LIFE |
| XVII. | THE MEDIClNE-MAN |
| XVIII. | KANAIMA; THE INVISIBLE OR BROKEN ARROW |
| XIX. | MISCELLANEOUS INDIAN BELIEFS CONCERNING MAN AND ANIMALS |
| XX. | ANIMISM AND FOLK-TALES OF RECENT INTRODUCTION; MIXED FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS BELIEFS |
| XXI. | MISCELLANEOUS FOLK-LORE, INDEPENDENT OF ANIMISM |
| GLOSSARY |