Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

xiv + 433 p., 7 figuras, tabelas, mapas
Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

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INTRODUCTION xi

I - ATTEMPTS AT CONTINENT-WIDE TREATMENT

Introduction 1

1 JULIAN H. STEWARD, American Culture History in the Light of South America 4

2 GEORGE PETER MURDOCK, South American Culture Areas 22

3 JOHN HOWLAND ROWE, A Review of Outline of South American Cultures 40

4 JOHN HOWLAND ROWE, Linguistic Classification Problems in South America 43

5 ARYON DALL'IGNA RODRIGUES, Linguistic Groups of Amazonia 51

6 MAX SCHMIDT, Comments on Cultivated Plants and Agricultural Methods of South American Indians 60

II - RELATIONSHIPS TO NATURAL RESOURCES

Introduction 69

7 ROBERT L. CARNEIRO, Slash-and-Burn Cultivation Among the Kuikuru and Its Implications for Cultural

Development in the Amazon Basin 73

8 WILLIAM M. DENEVAN, Campa Subsistence in the Gran Pajonal, Eastern Peru 92

9 CURT NIMUENDAJÚ, Farming Among the Eastern Timbira 111

10 FRITZ W. UP de GRAFF, Jívaro Field Clearing with Stone Axes 12 0

11 ROBERT L. CARNEIRO, Hunting and Hunting Magic Among the Amahuaca of the Peruvian Montaña 122

12 JOHN GILLIN, Barama River Carib Fishing 134

III - RELATIONSHIPS WITH ONE'S OWN KIND

Introduction 137

13 ARTHUR P. SORENSEN, JR., Multilingualism in the Northwest Amazon 138

14 WALTER EDMUND ROTH, Trade and Barter Among the Guiana Indians 159

15 DARCY RIBEIRO, Kadiwéu Kinship 167

16 WILLIAM H. CROCKER, Extramarital Sexual Practices of the Ramkokamekra-Canela Indians: An Analysis
of Socio-Cultural Factors 184

17 ROBERT F. MURPHY, Deviance and Social Control I: What Makes Warú Run? 195

18 ROBERT F. MURPHY, Deviance and Social Control II: Borai 202

19 MISCHA TITIEV, Social Singing Among the Mapuche 208

20 NIELS FOCK, Mataco Law 221

21 ANTHONY LEEDS, The Ideology of the Yaruro Indians in Relation to Socio-Economic Organization 226

IV - RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE SUPERNATURAL

Introduction 235

22 JUAN VÍCTOR NÚÑEZ del PRADO B., The Supernatural World of the Quechua of Southern Peru as Seen
from the Community of Qotobamba 238

23 GERALD WEISS, Campa Cosmology 251

24 JULIO CEZAR MELATTI, Myth and Shaman 267

25 MICHAEL J. HARNER, The Sound of Rushing Water 276

26 KENNETH M. KENSINGER, Cashinahua Medicine and Medicine Men 283

27 GERARDO REICHEL-DOLMATOFF, Funerary Customs and Religious Symbolism Among the Kogi 289

28 GERTRUDE E. DOLE, Endocannibalism Among the Amahuaca Indians 302

29 PIERRE CLASTRES, Guayakí Cannibalism 309

V - REACTIONS TO ENCROACHMENT FROM OUTSIDE

Introduction 323

30 ROBERT CHARLES PADDEN, Cultural Change and Military Resistance in Araucanian Chile, 1550-1730 327

31 M. INEZ HILGER AND MARGARET MONDLOCH, Surnames and Time and Distance Measurements Among the Chilean

Araucanians 343

32 UDO OBEREM, Trade and Trade Goods in the Ecuadorian Montaña 346

33 PROTASIO FRIKEL, Notes on the Present Situation of the Xikrín Indians of the Rio Caeteté 358

34 ROQUE de BARROS LARAIA, "Polyandrous Adjustments" in Suruí Society 370

35 CHARLES WAGLEY, The Effects of Depopulation upon Social Organization as illustrated by the Tapirapé

Indians 373

36 CHARLES WAGLEY, Cultural Influences on Population: A Comparison of Two Tupí Tribes 377

37 HERBERT BALDUS, Shamanism in the Acculturation of a Tupí Tribe of Central Brazil 385

38 ELMER S. MILLER, The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularization 391

39 JOSÉ ALVAREZ, O. P., A New Tribe of Toyeri Savages 397

A GUIDE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 401

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