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Proceedings of the thirty-second International Congress of Americanists, Copenhagen, 8-14 August 1956.
- Title
- Proceedings of the thirty-second International Congress of Americanists, Copenhagen, 8-14 August 1956.
- Author
- International Congress of Americanists (32nd : 1956 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Publication
- Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1958.
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32nd (1956) | Book/Text | Request in advance | L.SOC.150.3 (32nd) 32nd (1956) | Off-site |
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- Description
- 743 p. illus., maps, diagrs., tables.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Konferenzschrift – 1956 – Kopenhagen.
- Note
- Contributions in English, French, German, and Spanish.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- [Articles in English] Section A: American Indian Ethnology -- The culture area concept as applied to North and South Amerca / Robert H. Lowie -- The evolution of American Indian culture / Burt W. Aginsky -- Kinship and social organisation in Central Brazil / David Maybury-Lewis -- Cultural aspects and social funcations of the "oho" institution among the Waiwai / Niels Fock -- Lateralization among American Indians / Ethel G. and Burt W. Aginsky -- Tribal division withing the eastern Shoshone of Wyoming / Ake Hulterkrantz -- Monotheistic tendencies among the Winnebago Indians (abstract) / Paul Ranin -- Social and cultural changes in a Tzeltal (Mayan) Municipio, Chipas, Mexico / Henning Siverts -- Diet and health in an acculturated tribe / Pia Maybury-Lewis -- Twine-plaiting in the New World / Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson
- Ethnographical material from the Americas in Russian Collections / Irina Zolotarevskaja, E.E. Blomkvist, E.V. Zibert -- The translation of the "Cantares Mexicanos" by Leonhard Schultze Jena / Gerdt Kutcscher -- The kinship-system of the Incas and some of its implications / R.T. Zuidema -- Section B. : American Indian Archaeology -- Excavation in the Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuele / Friedrich Ernst Prinz von sachsen-Altenburg -- The Inscription on Sela I, El Castillor, Region of Santa Lucia Cotzumahualpa, Guatemala / Cottie A. Burland -- American collections in the Birmingham City Museum / Adrian Oswald -- Some wooden figures from Peru in the Hamburg Ethnographical Museum / Wolfgang Haberland -- Explanation of the Nasca Iconography / Hans Feriz -- The problem of the stone "thrones" of Ecuador and the stone "yokes" of Tajin / Hans Feriz
- A Cupisnique vase in the Royal Scottish Museum / G.H.S. Bushnell -- Ceremonial "badminton" in the ancient culture of Moche (North Peru) / Gerdt Kutscher -- Two fossil elelphant kill sites in the American Southwest / Emil H. Haury -- Demonstration of a South-Peruvian arrow throwing stick / Hans Feriz -- New data on the Maya written language / Y.V. Knorozov -- A pre-classic complex of Western El Salvador, C.A. / Wolfgang Haberland -- The Peralta complex -- a sonoran variant of the Cochise culture / George E. Fay -- Recent discoveries at Caracol site, British Honduras / A.H. Anderson -- Absolute chronology in the Caribbean area / Irving Rouse and J.M. Cruxent -- Section C: Arctic Ethnology and Archaeology
- Neo-Aleut and Paleo-Aleut prehistory / W.S. Laughlin -- Caribou Eskimo legal concepts [Inuit] / Geert van den Steenoven -- Eskimo polyandry and social organization / Robert F. Spencer -- Ancient cultures and cultural and ethnic relations on the Pacific Coast of North Asia / A.P. Okladnikov -- Present status of the Dorset problem / Henry B. Collins -- Archaeology of the Farthest North [Northern Scandinavia, Greenland, etc.] / Eigil Knuth -- The material culture of the Nunamiut in relation to other forms of Eskimo Cultures in Northern Alaska / Helge Larsen -- Section D: Physical anthropology -- Blood groups of the Anaqtuavik Eskimos, Alaska (summary) / W.S. Lauglin -- Marriage, incest and genetics / Burt W. Aginsky -- Anthropological type of the North-Eastern Palaeoasiatics [Paleo-asiatics] and problems of their ethnogenesis / M.G. Levin
- Section E: Linguistics -- Remarks on Eskimo semantics / Erik Holtved -- Aleut and Proto-Eskimo / Knut Bergsland -- Western Eskimo dialects [incl. Northern Canada] / L.L. Hammerich -- The origin of the Eskimo / L.L. Hammerich -- Glottochronology : a preliminary appraisal of the North American data / Fred Eggan -- Is Lexico-Statistic dating Valid? / Knut Bergsland -- Section F: Colonial history -- The theory and practice of racial segregation in colonial Spanish America / Magnus Morner -- Ten Years of Topographical and Archaeological Investigations in the Medieval Norse Settlements in Greenland / C.L. Vebaek
- OCLC
- 10145074
- SCSB-10236077
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library