Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes

Description

Editor: Steward, Julian H. (1902-1972)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name, date, locational information and bookplate on front pastedown.  Gilto on spine faded but still readable (up close).

Notes: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143.  These tribes are the tribes of the upper Amazon, from the eastern base of the Andes into Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, and a smattering of Paraguay.  “The Tropical Forest complex is marked off from the higher Andean civilizations by lacking architectural and metallurgical refinements, yet outranks cultures with the hunting-gathering economy…At the core of the area the diagnostic features are: the cultivation of tropical root crops, especially bitter manioc; effective river craft; the use of hammocks as beds; and the manufacture of pottery.”  (From the Introduction)  For each tribe or group of tribes studied there is a reference bibliography.