| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 1023 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Introduction / Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz -- Testimonies: the making and reading of native South American historical sources / Frank Salomon -- Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years / Sabine MacCormack -- The earliest South American lifeways / Thomas F. Lynch -- The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of complex culture / Anna C. Roosevelt -- The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations (500 B.C.E.-C.E. 600) / Izumi Shimada -- Andean urbanism and statecraft, (C.E. 550-1450) / Luis Lumbreras -- Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistence of "Señoríos Naturales" 1400 to European conquest / Juan Villamarín and Judith Villamarín -- Archaeology of the Caribbean region / Louis Allaire -- Prehistory of the Southern Cone / Mario A. Rivera -- The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social foundations / María Rostworowski and Craig Morris -- The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the Caribbean (1492-1580) / Neil L. Whitehead -- The crises and transformations of invaded societies: Andean area (1500-1580) / Karen Spalding -- The crises and transformations of invaded societies: coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century / John M. Monteiro |
| Summary |
This is a major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America, from the earliest settlement of the continent to the present day |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of Central America -- History
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Indians of South America -- History
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Indians of Central America.
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Indians of North America.
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Indians of South America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Salomon, Frank
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Schwartz, Stuart B
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| ISBN |
9781139053785 |
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1139053787 |
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9780511468568 |
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0511468563 |
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