ISBN:
0070563489
,
9780070563483
,
0070563497
,
9780070563490
Language:
English
Pages:
379 pages
,
illustrations (some color)
,
29 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Severin, Timothy Horizon book of vanishing primitive man
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Severin, Timothy Horizon book of vanishing primitive man
DDC:
301.2
Keywords:
Indigenous peoples
;
Primitive societies
;
Bildband
;
Bildband
Abstract:
Includes chapters on the Ainu, Eskimos and Lapps
Abstract:
Genesis: an introdution -- A living stone age -- Children of the forest [Pygmies of the Ituri forest in Africa] -- The Cunas of Golden Castile -- Aristocrats of the ocean [Polynesians] -- The "Click" people [South African Bushmen, who lived today off the resources of the Kalahari Desert] -- Technocrats of the North [Eskimos] -- The sky people of Hokkaido [The Ainus, the gentle aboriginal Caucasoids of northern Japan] -- Cannibas and missionaries [Melanesians of New Guinea] -- The ski runners of Lapland [Lapps] -- The spartans of the Mato Grosso [Indians of Brazil] -- Exodus, Judges, and Lamentations -- The life of primitive man: a series of picture portfoliois
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 378)
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