From Amazons to Zombies

Persephone Braham

earliest edition we have, 2015 Bucknell University Press, 2017 paperback 216 pages

"How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America -- Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean -- are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants, and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America's most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all the world's sacred tradi...

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From Amazons to Zombies paperback · 2017 · Bucknell University Press · 216 pages · 9781611487084
From Amazons to Zombies edition · 2016 · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated · 216 pages · 9781611487060
From Amazons to Zombies edition · 2015 · RLPG - Bucknell UP · 9781611487077

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