Indigenous South Americans of the past and present
Subtitle: an ecological perspective
By: David J. Wilson.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Social life and customs; Indians of South America -- Antiquities; Ethnology -- South America; Human ecology -- South America; Archaeology -- South America; South America -- Antiquities; South America -- Social life and customs
Description: Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent over the past 13,000 years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-468) and index.