• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Handbook of South American Indians, Julian H. Steward, editor. Volume 5. The comparative ethnology of South American Indians. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143.]
  • Contributor: Ackerknecht, Erwin Heinz [Other]; Bennett, Wendell C. [Other]; Cooper, John M. [Other]; Heizer, Robert Fleming [Other]; Kirchhoff, Paul [Other]; Kroeber, Alfred Louis [Other]; Lowie, Robert Harry [Other]; Métraux, Alfred [Other]; O'Neale, Lila Morris [Other]; Root, William C. [Other]; Rouse, Irving [Other]; Steward, Julian Haynes [Other]; Willey, Gordon R. [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1947
    Online-Ausg.: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2008
  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 11197
    House document / 80th Congress, 1st session. House ; no. 424
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (844 p); illustrations, tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2008
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  • Footnote: A cross-cultural survey of South American Indian tribes: Architecture and engineering, p. 1
    Art, by A.L. Kroeber, p. 411
    Bark cloth, by Alfred Metraux, p. 67
    Basketry, by Lila M. O'Neale, p. 69
    Bibliography to Volume 5, p. 783
    Boys' initiation rites, by Alfred Metraux, p. 375
    Ceramics, by Gordon R. Willey, p. 139
    Engineering, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 53
    Fire making, by John M. Cooper, p. 283
    Fish poisons, by Robert F. Heizer, p. 277
    Games and gambling, by John M. Cooper, p. 503
    Glossary, p. 773
    Habitations, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 1
    Household furniture, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 21
    List of illustrations, p. XIII
    Medical practices, by Erwin H. Ackerknecht, p. 621
    Metallurgy, by William C. Root, p. 205
    Mnemonic and recording devices, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 611
    Numbers, measures, weights, and calendars, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 601
    Part 2. Jesuit missions in South America, by Alfred Metraux, p. 645
    Part 3. The native population of South America, by Julian H. Steward, p. 655
    Part 4. South American cultures: An interpretive summary, by Julian H. Steward, p. 669
    Petroglyphs, by Irving Rouse, p. 493
    Property among the tropical forest and marginal tribes, by Robert H. Lowie, p. 351
    Religion and shamanism, by Alfred Metraux, p. 559
    Religious structures, by Wendell C. Bennett, p. 29
    Rubber, by Alfred Metraux, p. 227
    Social and political organization of the tropical forest and marginal tribes, by Robert H. Lowie, p. 313
    Stimulants and narcotics, by John M. Cooper, p. 525
    Table of contents, p. V
    The couvade, by Alfred Metraux, p. 369
    The social and political organization of the Andean peoples, by Paul Kirchoff, p. 293
    Traps, by John M. Cooper, p. 253
    Warfare, cannibalism, and human trophies, by Alfred Metraux, p. 383
    Weapons, by Alfred Metraux, p. 229
    Weaving, by Lila M. O'Neale, p. 97
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