Springer, 2015. — 354 p. This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands to the Amazon, the valley has served as the...
Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1972. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples representing every level...
Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples representing every level...
Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples representing every level...
Volume Editor: Professor Julian Pitt-Rivers; Supervisory Editor of the series: Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The...
Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Volume Editor: Professor Fernando Henriques. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The...
Volume Editor: Hugh Brody; Supervisory Editor of the series: Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples...
Volume Editor: Shelagh Weir; Supervisory Editor of the series: Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p. The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers...
Greenwood, 2017. — 474 p. An interesting resource for learning about the cultural differences and characteristics of people across the globe, this encyclopedia covers the "do's" and "don'ts" of a breadth of countries and major ethnic groups. Provides comprehensive coverage of many of the world's countries and cultures that enables readers to make insightful cross-cultural...
Washington: National Geographic Society, 1968. — 208 p. — SBN 87044-067-5. Television antennas rise from rooftops on Hopi mesas; New Guinea's Asmat, headhunters not long ago, abandon cannibal rituals and send their children to school; Lapp suitors ride snowmobiles instead of reindeer-drawn sleds to go courting. These examples of change - and many others in this book — vividly...
Facts on File, 2008. — 1002 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8160-7109-8. "Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania" is a new two-volume A-to-Z reference to the peoples of the Asia-Pacific region east of the Caspian Sea, not including the countries of the Middle East. More than 400 entries cover the major peoples that for a time maintained a cultural identity in the area - from ancient...
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