﻿PREFACE 
  

  

  The 
  Handbook 
  of 
  South 
  American 
  Indians, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  present 
  

   volume 
  is 
  the 
  second, 
  has 
  been 
  prepared 
  by 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  

   Ethnology 
  as 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  State's 
  general 
  program 
  of 
  

   Cooperation 
  with 
  the 
  American 
  Republics. 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  inter- 
  American 
  

   undertaking, 
  written 
  by 
  scientists 
  from 
  throughout 
  the 
  Hemisphere. 
  

  

  The 
  purpose 
  and 
  plan 
  of 
  the 
  Handbook 
  has 
  been 
  explained 
  fully 
  

   in 
  the 
  Introduction, 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  volume, 
  so 
  that 
  little 
  

   need 
  be 
  added 
  here. 
  In 
  order, 
  however, 
  to 
  clarify 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  

   second 
  volume 
  among 
  the 
  five 
  which 
  will 
  make 
  up 
  the 
  Handbook, 
  

   their 
  contents 
  may 
  be 
  briefly 
  indicated. 
  

  

  Volume 
  1. 
  — 
  The 
  Marginal 
  Tribes: 
  the 
  archeology 
  and 
  ethnology 
  

   of 
  the 
  primitive 
  hunting 
  and 
  gathering 
  tribes 
  of 
  eastern 
  Brazil, 
  the 
  

   Gran 
  Chaco, 
  the 
  Pampas, 
  Patagonia, 
  Southern 
  Chile, 
  and 
  Tierra 
  del 
  

   Fuego. 
  

  

  Volume 
  2. 
  — 
  The 
  Andean 
  Civilizations: 
  the 
  high-culture, 
  farming 
  

   peoples 
  of 
  the 
  Andean 
  Highlands 
  and 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  from 
  Colom- 
  

   bia 
  to 
  Central 
  Chile. 
  

  

  Volume 
  8. 
  — 
  The 
  Tropical 
  Forest 
  Tribes: 
  the 
  peoples, 
  both 
  horti- 
  

   culturalists 
  and 
  hunters 
  and 
  gatherers, 
  of 
  the 
  tropical 
  jungles 
  and 
  

   savannas 
  and 
  the 
  subtropical 
  areas 
  of 
  the 
  Amazon 
  Basin, 
  Matto 
  

   Grosso, 
  Paraguay, 
  and 
  the 
  Brazilian 
  Coast. 
  

  

  Volume 
  4> 
  — 
  The 
  Circum-Caribbean 
  Tribes: 
  the 
  tribes 
  of 
  Central 
  

   America, 
  lowland 
  Colombia 
  and 
  Venezuela, 
  and 
  the 
  Antilles. 
  

  

  Volume 
  5. 
  — 
  The 
  Comparative 
  Anthropology 
  of 
  South 
  American 
  

   Indians: 
  geography, 
  languages, 
  physical 
  anthropology, 
  population, 
  and 
  

   various 
  aspects 
  of 
  culture 
  treated 
  distributionally 
  and 
  comparatively. 
  

  

  The 
  Andean 
  peoples 
  are 
  distinctive 
  for 
  their 
  high 
  native 
  cultural 
  

   development, 
  for 
  their 
  rich 
  archeological 
  remains, 
  and 
  for 
  their 
  strong 
  

   survival, 
  both 
  numerically 
  and 
  culturally, 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  day. 
  In 
  

   this 
  volume, 
  therefore, 
  it 
  is 
  possible 
  to 
  trace 
  the 
  long-time 
  trends 
  in 
  

   what 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  America's 
  most 
  developed 
  civilizations. 
  These 
  

   trends 
  are 
  first 
  identifiable 
  archeologically 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  centuries 
  of 
  

   the 
  Christian 
  Era, 
  they 
  culminate 
  in 
  the 
  great 
  Inca 
  Empire 
  of 
  the 
  

   Conquest 
  Period, 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  left 
  a 
  deep 
  impression 
  on 
  the 
  modern 
  

   Andean 
  nations. 
  This 
  long 
  sweep 
  of 
  history 
  is 
  covered 
  by 
  three 
  types 
  

   of 
  articles, 
  corresponding 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  to 
  the 
  major 
  periods: 
  arche- 
  

   ological, 
  historical, 
  and 
  ethnographic. 
  

  

  The 
  extraordinary 
  archeological 
  riches 
  of 
  the 
  Andes 
  hold 
  promise 
  

   of 
  eventually 
  revealing 
  the 
  detailed 
  development 
  of 
  native 
  agricul- 
  

  

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