The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz

Overview

This 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. The volume's emphasis is on self-perceptions of the indigenous peoples of South America at various times and under differing situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521630757
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1999
Series:	The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas , #3
Pages:	1070
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.29(h) x 2.56(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Salomon and Schwartz's study offers choices and challenges to a new generation of students." The Historian

"Both valuable and useful..." American Historical Review

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