Tales of the Amazon

"This book of Amazonian tales, written by Waldir Semblante, reveals itself as a large and valuable source of historical, anthropological, linguistic, sociological and cultural informations of the Amazonian peoples.We are, thus, in front of a fully historical-literary work.Indigenous and mestizos issues take shape, gain voice. The knowledges, customs and beliefs of them, are revealed through histories nimble, fast and, at the same time, involved by the suffering and horrors suffered by the Amazonian peoples in the course of the history. "Wany SampaioProfessorPos-Doctor in Cognitive LinguisticUNIR-RO