Title: Nomads of the long bow : the Siriono of eastern Bolivia /
Authors: Holmberg, Allan R.
Publisher: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] Natural History Press,
Year: 1969
Subjects: Siriono Indians.
Abstract: "From 1940 through 1942 a young anthropologist lived among one of 'the most technologically handicapped people of the world.' With a three-foot digging stick and a cumbersome long bow and arrow, the Siriono Indians struggle daily to survive in the tropical rain forest of eastern Bolivia. Lacking the knowledge to make fire, they borrow it from neighbors, transporting it from camp to camp in a palm spadix. Without the manufacture of watercraft, they wade and swim their way across the jungle rivers of their homeland."
Contents: Setting and people -- History -- Technology -- Exploitative activities -- Food and drink -- Routine activities of life -- Folk beliefs and science -- Social and political organization -- Sex and the life cycle -- Religion and magic -- Some problems and conclusions.