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Indigenous Peoples in Isolation in the Peruvian Amazon
Contributor(s): Castillo, Beatriz Huertas (Author)
ISBN: 8790730771     ISBN-13: 9788790730772
Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affai
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2005
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Annotation: In this important work, Beatriz Huertas Castillo offers an objective yet human vision of the current situation of the indigenous groups in isolation in Peru. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, and interviews with people living in areas neighboring these isolated groups, she presents solid evidence of their existence, their geographic areas of migration, their cultural and linguistic diversity and their considerable numbers. She also provides a thorough review of various bibliographic sources, compiling into just one book the relevant observations and details that are to be found scattered through out historic documents, scientific publications and obscure or unpublished sources. This book offers historic and anthropological perspectives from which to understand the fragility of the isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with wider society.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: 305.898
LCCN: 2005355357
Series: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (Iwgia)
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.78" W x 9.42" (1.08 lbs) 247 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America