HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS - SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [5 VOLUMES]
Book Details + Condition: United States Government Printing Office (Washington DC). First Editions, 1946-1949. Complete five-volume hardcover set. Profusely illustrated with maps and illustrations (with several being fold-outs). The Handbook of South American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in ethnographic studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution between 1940 and 1947. The five-volume series documents information about Indigenous peoples of South America, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and prehistory. Volumes include:
- Volume 1: The Marginal Tribes (1946), 582 pages with bibliography.
- Volume 2: The Andean Civilizations (1946), 978 pages with bibliography.
- Volume 3: The Tropical Forrest Tribes (1948), 897 pages with bibliography.
- Volume 4: The Circum-Caribbean Tribes (1948), 564 pages with bibliography.
- Volume 5: The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians (1949), 773 pages with bibliography.
From the massive religious and historical collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For all volumes: firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; fading to spine; Parker's name to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
