| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
viii, 566 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Late pleistocene environments and early man in south America / James J. Hester -- 2. Archanism and the revival on the south coast of Peru / Dorothy Menzel -- 3. The agriculture basis of the sub-andean chiefdoms of colombia / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- 4. An interpretation of the cultures of Marajo Island / Betty j. Meggers and Clifford Evans -- 5. Urban settlements in Ancient Peru / John H. Rowe -- 6. The "hunting" economies of the tropical forest zone of south America: an attempt at historical perspective / Donald Lathrap -- 7. Slash-and-burn cultivation among the kuikuru and its implications for cultural development in the Amazon basin / Robert L. Carneiro -- 8. The culture-ecology of shifting (pioneering) cultivation among the Yanomano Indians / Napoleon a. Chagnon -- 9. Cultural influences on population: a comparison of two Tupi Tribes / Charles Wagley -- 10. Lessons from a "primitive" people / James v. Neel -- 11.Types of social structure among the lowland tribes of south and central America / Kalervo Oberg -- 12. Social structure and sex antagoinism / Robert F. Murphy -- 13. Tropical foresthunters and the economy of sex / Janet Siskind -- 14. Privacy and extra-marital affairs in a tropical forest community / Thomas Gregor -- 15. Social structures of central and eastern Brazil / Claude Levi-strauss -- 16. A reconsideration of apinaye social morphology / Roberto Da Matta -- 17. Shamanism and poitical control among the kuikuru / Gertrude e. Dole -- 18. South American Indian linguistics at the turn of the senenties / Arthur P. Sorensen -- 19. The supernatural world of the Jivaro Shaman / Michael J. Harner -- 20. A visit to God / R. T. Zuidema and U. Quispe -- 21. Rite and crop in the Inca state / John v. Murra -- 22. Race, culture and Man power / Marvin Harris -- 23. The highland Heritage / Marvin Harris -- 24. The Karaja and the Btrzilian Frontier / Christopher J. Tavener -- 25. Weavers of Otavalo / Frank Salomon |
| Subject |
Indians of South America.
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Indians of South America. |
| ISBN |
0385057253 0385057288 (pbk.) $12.50 |
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