Egon Schaden | Britannica

Egon Schaden

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BIOGRAPHY

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Author of Mitologia Heróica de Tribos Indígenas do Brasil and others.

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Map of South America and the Caribbean showing the distribution of Aboriginal cultural groups, with regions color-coded by cultural type including Andean, Central American, tropical forest, and various nomadic cultures such as aquatic nomads, forest hunters and gatherers, and shellfish gatherers. Major group names are labeled across the continent and surrounding islands.

South American forest Indian

South American forest Indian, indigenous inhabitants of the tropical forests of South America. The tribal cultures of South America are so various that they cannot be adequately summarized in a brief space. The mosaic is baffling in its complexity: the cultures have interpenetrated one another as a…

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