"Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world. Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples and minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnogr…
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone t…
Indigenous people constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely than other groups of a country's population to be poor. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress…
Indigenous people constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely than other groups of a country's population to be poor. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress…
"Indigenous peoples constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely to be poor than any other group. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in…
The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct-especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals-and on the process of converting them to Christianity. This volume contributes to the unfinished task o…