Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (Hardcover)

Professor of Anthropology Frank Salomon; University Stuart B Schwartz
Cambridge University Press
 9780521630757
0-521-63075-4

This is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians.

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was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected are also discussed. The volume's emphasis is on self-perceptions of the indigenous peoples of South America at various times and under differing situations.