The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas. Volume 3, South America. Part 1 / edited by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salomon, Frank, editor.

Schwartz, Stuart B., editor.

Series:

Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas

The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--History.

Indians of South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 1054 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This volume, part of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected are also discussed. This volume is an 'idea-oriented history', emphasizing the development of general themes instead of presenting every group and society. Indigenous peoples' own stories of the past are used as well as the standard accounts written by outsiders. Research is presented following regional and conceptual frameworks; some chapters overlap or present differing interpretations. The volume's emphasis is on self-perceptions of the indigenous peoples of South America at various times and under differing situations.

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.

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ISBN:

9781139053785 (ebook)

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