Книга рассказывает о жизни инков – народа, населявшего территорию современного Перу. Автор подробно описывает повседневную жизнь инков во всем ее многообразии, опираясь на данные археологических раскопок, богатый фольклор, легенды и записи испанских завоевателей.

В книге Э.Кенделл «Инки» много места уделено быту, религии и структуре общественного устройства. На основе отчетов археологических экспедиций, используя богатый фольклор и записи испанских завоевателей, автор воссоздает образ жизни и культуру жителей огромной империи. Вы познакомитесь с уникальными принципами планировки, по которым талантливые зодчие этого древнего народа создавали города, строили дворцы и храмы.

Джон Мэнчип Уайт, известный историк, подробно описывает быт и обычаи племен североамериканских индейцев. Вы проследите нелегкий путь их кочевья, узнаете о том, как они охотились и возделывали землю, обучали и воспитывали детей, навсегда прощались с сородичами. Книга Уайта – неисчерпаемый источник для изучения культурного наследия народа, который, несмотря на все трудности, сумел сохранить свое национальное своеобразие.

The empire of the Incas was the greatest native state ever to appear in the Americas. Overcoming the seemingly impossible obstacles of their environment and limitations of technology, the Incas created one of the world’s most unusual civilizations. Their achievements have fascinated the world for close to five centuries, since the culture’s discovery by the Spanish. I first encountered the realm of the Incas in 1964 on a visit to Peru and have been studying and learning about them ever since. I am one of the very few foreign archaeologists who have been privileged to work on the Inca legacy in Cuzco, and my studies have primarily focused on discovering who the Incas were and where they came from. I have spent my career examining this question in terms of their intellectual and cultural inheritance as well as their physical and geographic origins. In this volume I have tried to present a fairly concise overview of the Incas that will be readily accessible to the average reader. There are few introductory textbooks on the Incas, and I hope that this effort will serve to fill that gap. I have drawn on many of the traditional ethnohistorical sources and tried to integrate archaeological knowledge wherever possible to provide a readily accessible synthesis. While this volume is not and should not be taken as the last word on the Incas, I hope that it will provide an introduction to the topic and guidance on where to look for detailed and comprehensive studies on individual aspects of Inca society and history.

This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural and cultural worlds around him.

The fascinating portrayal of the Cherokee nation, filled with Native American legend, lore, and religion -- a gripping American drama of power, politics, betrayal, and ambition

Once, and not all that long ago, Manhattan was Indian country, as it had been for thousands of years. Today, most people tracing descent to the first Manhattans live scattered along the many trails leading into their exile on small reservations in Ontario, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Four centuries ago, when Europeans like Henry Hudson began sailing to their shores, Manhattans and their kin held sole, sovereign sway over a homeland that took in a broad swath of the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. It stretched from Manhattan to the nearby mainland and adjacent parts of Long Island and the Jersey shore, across meadows and pine barrens along the coastal plain, and inland through forest-covered valleys. Above them rose ascending tiers of ridges extending from the Palisades, Ramapos, Hudson Highlands, Kittatinys, Shawangunks, and Taconics to the high peaks and plateaus of the Berkshire, Catskill, and Pocono uplands. Then as now, winds constantly blew moisture-laden storm clouds over these front ranges of the Appalachians, a mountain chain that runs like a spine across eastern North America from Acadia to Alabama.