Loveland, Franklin O.

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Loveland, Franklin O. (detail)
1976Tapirs and manatees: cosmological categories and social process among the Rama Indians of eastern Nicaragua. In: M. W. Helms & F. O. Loveland (eds.), Frontier adaptations in lower Central America.
Philadelphia, Inst. for Study of Human Issues: 67-82. 1 tab.
—Describes the symbolic significance, hunting, and carcass utilization of manatees and rituals and myths concerning manatees among the Rama. Manatees symbolize culture, society, and order, in contrast to untamed nature and disorder, represented by tapirs. [The Rama are evidently people of great discernment.]