AS LENDAS DA CRIACAO E DESTRUICAO DO MUNDO COMO FUNAMENTOS DA RELIGIAO DOS APAPOCUVA-GUARANI by CURT NIMUENDAJU UNKEL - 1987

Significant and hard-to-find Portuguese publication on the legends and religion of the Indigenous Apapocuva - Guarani (Brasil) by the remarkable ethnographer Curt Nimuendaju Unkel. Traducao de Charlotte Emmerich & Eduardo B. Viveiros de Castro (Museo Nacional, UFRJ). Published with additional material: "Uma parte da historia desta publicacao," Carla Goncalves Antunha Barbosa e Marco Antonio Barbosa; "Numuendaju e os Guarani," Eduardo B. Viveiros de Castro; Nota sobre esta edicao. A roughly 100-page first part describes Apapocuva history, dialect, religion and religious practices. The second part: the three legends--bilingual Guarani-Portugues. 156pp. Map. Illustrations. Photographs. This book is unused, but shelf worn: pencil erasure on front end paper, cover rubbed, paper edges discolored. Paper cover folded flaps. According to WorldCat, few libraries have this publication. No English translation. In stock. Usually ships in three days.