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Paperback Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination Book

ISBN: 0226761843

ISBN13: 9780226761848

Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination

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In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of provoking death or madness, but also called upon to help shamanic healers. Male dolphins--accomplished dancers who appear dressed in dapper straw hats, white suits, and with shiny black shoes--reportedly...

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