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Amazonia : man and culture in a counterfeit paradise / Betty J. Meggers.
LIBRA F2519.1.A6 M35
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meggers, Betty Jane, author.
- Series:
- Worlds of man (Aldine Publishing Company)
- Worlds of man
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley.
- Indians of South America.
- Environmental conditions.
- Adaptation (Biology).
- Biotic communities.
- Human geography.
- Amazon River Valley.
- Human geography--Amazon River Valley.
- Biotic communities--Amazon River Valley.
- Adaptation (Biology)--Amazon River Valley.
- Amazon River Valley--Environmental conditions.
- Ecology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Meggers, Betty Jane (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Aldine, Atherton [1971]
- Summary:
- This ethnography shows the relationship between the various physical environments of the Amazon Basin and the cultural adaptations that have developed there.
- Contents:
- The ecosystem
- Aboriginal adaptation to the Terra Firme
- Adaptive aspects of Terra Firme culture
- Aboriginal adaptation to the V̀rzea
- Amazonia in the modern world
- The evolutionary significance of adaptation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016/2015 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To Rita & Irving in memory of past collaboration & with best wishes Betty Nov. 5, 1971") in blue ink on half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: pages [i]-vi detached and laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0202010163
- 9780202010168
- 0882956094
- 9780882956091
- 0202010449
- 9780202010441
- OCLC:
- 153092
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