Profiles in ethnology.
Subtitle: A revision of A profile of primitive culture.
By: A revision of A profile of primitive culture.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Ethnology.
Table of contents: title: Preface to A profile of primitive culture -- PART 1. Bands -- The Arunta of Australia -- The Yahgan of South America -- The Andaman Islanders -- The Copper Eskimo -- PART 2. Tribes -- The Reindeer Tungus of Siberia -- The Cheyenne of the North American plains -- The Nuer of the Upper Nile River -- The Navaho [Navajo] of the American Southwest -- The Jivaro of South America -- PART 3. Chiefdoms -- The Nootka of British Columbia -- The Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia -- The Tahitians of Polynesia -- The Kalinga of the Philippine Islands -- PART 4. Primitive States -- The Zulu of South Africa -- The Maya of Mexico -- The Inca of Peru -- The Ashanti of West Africa -- PART 5. Modern folk societies -- Chan Kom: a village in Yucatan -- A Moroccan village -- A Chinese peasant village -- A village in India.