Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present

David J. Wilson is associate professor of anthropology and director of undergraduate at Southern Methodist University.

• Introduction -- Theoretical Approach -- An Overview of South American Environments -- Subsistence and Sociocultural Development -- Band Societies Present and Past -- Amazonian Villages and Chiefdoms -- Northwest Villages and Chiefdoms -- Contemporary Central Andean Villages -- Prehistoric Central Andean States -- Toward a Scientific Paradigm in South Americanist Studies