Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

566 p., mapas, tabelas, gráficos
Garden City: Doubleday/The Natural History Press

Antes de cada texto há uma introdução do organizador

Conteúdo:

PART I: PREHISTORY

1. JAMES J. HESTER, Late Pleistocene Environments and Early Man in South America 4
2. DOROTHY MENZEL, Archaism and Revival on the South Coast of Peru 19
3. GERARDO REICHEL-DOLMATOFF, The Agricultura! Basis of the Sub-Andean Chiefdoms of Colombia 28
4. BETTY J. MEGGERS and CLIFFORD EVANS, An Interpretation of the Cultures of Marajó Island 39
5. JOHN H. ROWE, Urban Settlements in Ancient Peru 49

PART II: SUBSISTENCE AND ECOLOGY

6. DONALD LATHRAP, The "Hunting" Economies of the Tropical Forest Zone of South America: An Attempt at Historical Perspective 83
7. ROBERT L. CARNEIRO, Slash-and-Burn Cultivation Among the Kuikuru and Its Implications for Cultural Development in the Amazon Basin 98
8. NAPOLEON A. CHAGNON, The Culture-Ecology of Shifting (Pioneering) Cultivation Among the Yanomamö Indians 126
9. CHARLES WAGLEY, Cultural Influences on Population: A Comparison of Two Tupí Tribes 145
10. JAMES V. NEEL, Lessons from a "Primitive" People 159

PART III: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

11. KALERVO OBERG, Types of Social Structure Among the Lowland Tribes of South and Central America 189
12. ROBERT F. MURPHY, Social Structure and Sex Antagonism 213
13. JANET SISKIND, Tropical Forest Hunters and the Economy of Sex 226
14. THOMAS GREGOR, Privacy and Extra-Marital Affairs in a Tropical Forest Community 242
15. CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil 263
16. ROBERTO DA MATTA, A Reconsideration of Apinayé Social Morphology 277
17. GERTRUDE E. DOLE, Shamanism and Political Control Among the Kuikuru 294

PART IV: LANGUAGE

18. ARTHUR P. SORENSEN, JR., South American Indian Linguistics at the Turn of the Seventies 312

PART V: RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY

19. MICHAEL J. HARNER, The Supernatural World of the Jívaro Shaman 347
20. R. T. ZUIDEMA and U. QUISPE, A Visit to God 358
21. JOHN V. MURRA, Rite and Crop in the Inca State 377

PART VI: SOCIAL CHANGE

22. MARVIN HARRIS, Race, Culture and Manpower
23. MARVIN HARRIS, The Highland Heritage
44. CHRISTOPHER J. TAVENER, The Karajá and the Brazilian Frontier
25. FRANK SALOMON, Weavers of Otavalo