| It is startling to discover in this age of moonshots and intercontinental missiles that there aregroups living today as they did in the Stone Agefifteen thousand years ago. In PRIMITIVE PEO-PLES TODAY, Dr. Edward Weyer, Jr. describesfourteen archaic cultures which have in mostcases completely escaped civilization. An an-thropologist and for twenty-two years editor ofNatural History Magazine, Dr. Weyer brings tothis study his firsthand experience among pre-literate groups from the arctic to the tropics.He relates the origins, socio-economic organiza-tion, initiation rituals, and mystical rites of suchdi berse societies as the Eskimos, ingeniously sur-viving in conditions paralleling the Ice Age; theAmerican Navahos, formerly hunters of the farnorth; the Lacandones of Mexico who alone wereable to resist subjugation by the Mayas; the head-shrinking Jivaros of the Andes; and the Aus-tralian Aruntas. |
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