THE CANELA (EASTERN TIMBIRA), I: An Ethnographic Introduction. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 33.

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487 pp. First edition. Monograph of an Amazon Indian tribe in Brazil; text in English. Binding tight; internally fine with eleven tables, fifty-one figures, and seventy-eight black and white photographic plates. Oversize and heavy (1.5 kilos) book may require a small additional shipping charge. Quoting the publisher: This monograph is about the Canela Indians of the município of Barra do Corda, Maranhão, and also about the neighboring Apanyekra, who are culturally very similar and are used here for comparisons. The Canela are also known as the Ramkokamekra-Canela, or the Eastern Timbira. These names were given to them in the monograph, "The Eastern Timbira," by Brazil's great ethnologist, Curt Nimuendajú (1946). The present monograph, referred to herein as the "Canela Introduction," is a product of 64 months of fieldwork over a period of 22 years. The Canela live in the ecologically intermediate cerrado area between tropical forest Amazonia and the dry Brazilian Northeast. Size: 28 x 22 x 2.5 cm. 0.0. N° de ref. del artículo 2241

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