HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, Volume 10 – Southwest [SOLD]

HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, Volume 10 – Southwest

Alfonso Ortiz, Volume Editor

Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1983

Hardback, first edition, excellent condition, 868 pages, illustrations, maps, photographs, drawings

Summary

This is the fifth volume to be published of a 20-volume set planned to give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America who lived to the north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico.  Volumes 5-8 and 11-15 treat the other major culture areas of the region.

The Southwest is the only culture area requiring two volumes.  This is because of the great amount of anthropological knowledge of the many peoples of this region, due in part to the fact that distinctive traditional cultures have survived here than elsewhere on the continent.

This volume covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-Pueblo peoples of the Southwest, the groups sometimes referred to as Circum-Pueblo and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica.