Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Faron, Louis C., 1923-2012

Description

1. xi, 481 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. The information in this book makes it possible to delineate the various cultures more accurately than in the past. Beyond factual or descriptive accounts, this book offers interpretations and explanations.

Subject

1. Indians of South America
2. Indians of South America
3. ethnography
4. tribal people
5. American Indian
6. Andean Indian
7. history
8. social structure
9. cultural change
10. religion
11. language
12. military government
13. tradition
14. statistical table
15. Anthropology > Latin America
16. Indians > Latin America
17. ethnographie
18. peuple tribal
19. Indien d'Amérique
20. Indien des Andes
21. histoire
22. structure sociale
23. changement culturel
24. langage
25. gouvernement militaire
26. tableau statistique
27. etnografía
28. pueblo tribal
29. indio americano
30. indio andino
31. historia
32. estructura social
33. cambio cultural
34. religión
35. lengua
36. gobierno militar
37. tradición
38. cuadros estadísticos
39. Latin America
40. Latin America > History
41. Amérique latine
42. América Latina

Genre/Form

1. map.
2. reference.
3. carte géographique.
4. référence bibliographique.
5. mapa.
6. referencia.

Contents

1. pt. 1. South American culture in perspective. South America at the European conquest -- South America in relation to aboriginal New World cultures -- Native groups and languages.
2. pt. 2. Foundations of New World cultures. The antiquity of the American Indian -- The original heritage -- Transoceanic influences.
3. pt. 3. Environment, production, and culture. Environment and subsistence -- Demography -- Demography and community size -- Surplus production and social types.
4. pt. 4. The central Andean irrigation civilization : prehistoric eras. The Andean cultural achievements -- The era of hunters, gatherers, and fishers -- The era of incipient farming : folk communities -- The formative era : emergence of theocratic states -- Regional florescent states : priests, warriors, and artisans -- Cyclical conquests : prehistoric empires -- Founding the Inca Empire.
5. pt. 5. Native central Andean culture of the historic era. The aboriginal Inca Empire -- The Spanish military conquest -- Cultural effects of Spanish institutions -- Periods of post-Spanish acculturation -- The central Andean Indians today.
6. pt. 6. Chiefdoms of the circum-Caribbean area and eastern Bolivia. General features and varieties of chiefdoms -- Environment and production in relation to types of chiefdoms -- Kinds of social and political structures -- Technology, manufactures, and constructions -- Cultural-ecological adaptations of chiefdoms.
7. pt. 7. Warring chiefdoms of the northern Andes and Central America. Prehistory -- Ecuador and southern Columbia : outposts of the Inca Empire -- The Chibcha, or Muisca : the great chiefdom -- Western Columbia : an area of local variations -- North Columbian lowlands : further variations -- The Cuna and their neighbors : exemplification of historic declutration -- The southern Caribbean lowlands : in the route of diffusion -- The Meso-Americans : northern influence -- The Lenca.
8. pt. 8. Theocratic chiefdoms of Venezuela and the greater Antilles. The Cordillera Oriental and Venezuelan Andes : intermediate types of chiefdoms -- Northern Venezuela : predominantly theocratic chiefdoms -- The Antillean Arawak : hierarchies of deities and men.
9. pt. 9. Chiefdoms of eastern Bolivia : tropical-forest chiefdoms. General features -- The Mojo and Bauř -- The Paress̕ -- The Manas̕.
10. Pt. 10. Farmers and pastralists of the southern Andes. The Atacamęo : Andean dwellers in the desert oases -- The Diaguita : farmers of the semideserts -- The Araucanians : Chilean farmers and pastoralists.
11. pt. 11. Farm villages of the tropical forests : general features. History -- Cultural-ecological adaptations -- Sociocultural patterns -- Material culture and technology.
12. Pt. 12. Varieties of tropical-forest villages. The Guianas : matrilineal societies -- The Island Carib : maritime warriors and cannibals -- The Tupinamb̀ : patrilineal villages of cannibal warriors -- The Guaran̕ : southern Tupian migrants -- The Chiriguano : recent migrants to the southern Andes -- Tupians of the Amazon River : variations of patrilineal societies -- Indians of the Montąa : seminomadic farm villages -- The Jurù-Pur︢s river area : seminomadic farm villages -- Eastern Bolivia : a culturally mixed area -- The northwest Amazon : simple triopical-forest types -- The eastern Columbian lowland : simple farm villages -- Village enclaves among the circum-Caribbean chiefdoms -- The eastern Brazilian highlands : hunters and gatherers who turned farmers.
13. pt. 13. Nomadic hunters and gathers : general features. History -- Subsistence patterns and social features -- Marriage and the family -- Religion -- Technology and material culture.
14. pt. 14. Varieties of nomadic hunters and gatherers. Family shellfish gatherers of the Chilean archipelago -- Bands of hunters and gatherers of the steppes and plains -- The hunters, gatherers, fishermen, and farmers of the Gran Chaco -- Foot nomads of the forestse -- Aquatic nomads.
15. pt. 15. Retrospect and prospect. The origin of the South American Indians and their culture -- The development of South American cultures -- Post-European changes -- Present and future : world industrial influences.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.