Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas - Set South America: Volume 3 Cambridge History of Native Peoples of

Klappentext This volume is a major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America. Zusammenfassung This volume surveys research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present. It concentrates on continental South America! but also discusses peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz; 1. Testimonies: the making and reading of native South American historical sources; 2. Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years; 3. The earliest South American lifeways; 4. The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of complex culture; 5. The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations, 500 BCE-600 CE; 6. Andean urbanism and statecraft, 550-1450 CE; 7. Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistance of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to European conquest; 8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region; 9. Pre-history of the Southern Cone; 10. The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social foundations; 11. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the Caribbean, 1492-1580; 12. The crises and transformations of invaded societies, 1500-1580: Andean area; 13. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: Coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century; 14. The crises and transformations of invaded societies in the La Plata Basin (1535-1650); 15. The colonial condition in the Quechua-Aymara heartland, 1570-1780; 16. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Southern margin (1573-1882); 17. The Western margins of Amazonia from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.

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• Authors: Richard E. W. Adams, Frank (University of Wisconsin Salomon, Frank Schwartz Salomon, Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn
• Assisted by: Frank Salomon (Editor), Stuart Schwartz (Editor), Stuart B. Schwartz (Editor), Schwartz Stuart B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.1999
• EAN: 9780521630757
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63075-7
• No. of pages: 1070
• Series: Cambridge History of the Nativ; The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas; The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas 2 Part Hardback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Indigenous / General