Abstract
In this impressive work of more than six hundred closely printed pages, the Marquis de Wavrin has embodied the results of fifteen years of travel and observation on five journeys of exploration among the less-known Indians of South America. He has covered a wide territory, for there is scarcely a part of the continent which he has not visited in that period ; but his most entertaining and informative (in the anthropological sense) material is drawn from the various peoples of the Amazonian region. His method is anecdotal rather than systematic, except that he has classified his data into chapters according to subject, covering material culture, social organization, relations of the sexes, religious beliefs and folklore.
Moeurs et coutumes des indiens sauvages de l'Amérique du sud
Par Marquis de Wavrin. (Bibliotheque scientifique.) Pp. 656 + 16 plates. (Paris: Payot et Cie, 1937.) 60 francs.
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Moeurs et coutumes des indiens sauvages de l'Amérique du sud. Nature 140, 344 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140344b0
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