South America

Vol. 16 / No. 3

By: John McDaniel

Professional Healthcare in a Montana Settlement of Peru

The settlement of Concepcion is recently founded, small (a total population of 212), and isolated. Located southeast of the town […]

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Vol. 15 / No. 4

By: Sabine Hargous-Vogel

Urban Problems, Peruvian Style

In Latin America there never has been a real, total cultural fusion such as occurred in Europe where the Mediterranean […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 4

By: Sergio J. Chavez and Karen L. Mohr Chavez

Newly Discovered Monoliths From the Highlands of Puno, Peru

The archaeologist must deal with many kinds of evidence from the past, including such obstinate creatures as mute monoliths, those […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 4

By: Thomas C. Greaves

The Texture of Disaster

The world for some 70,000 Peruvians ended on Sunday afternoon, last May 31st, and to something over a million more, […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 2

By: Kenneth M. Kensinger and Francis E. Johnston

The Cashinahua and the Study of Evolution

Cooperative research by physical and cultural anthropologists among small, isolated populations such as the Peruvian Cashinahua, who are still largely […]

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Vol. 10 / No. 4

By: Alfred Kidder, II

Two Peruvian Frogs

On a recent expedition to my optician’s on Chestnut Street I spotted an interesting Peruvian pottery frog effigy (now Museum […]

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Vol. 9 / No. 4

By: Alfred Kidder, II

A Mochica Potato Bird

Peru is famous for rich, natural resources, animal, vegetable and mineral, that about in its varied geographical zones from the […]

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Vol. 9 / No. 2

By: Francis E. Johnston, Richard L. Jantz and Geoffrey F. Walker

Physical Anthropology of the Cashinahua

As we have learned from the archaeological record, the American Indian is derived primarily from inhabitants of northeast Asia who […]

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Vol. 9 / No. 2

By: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Change and the Cashinahua

In the Summer, 1965 number of Expedition, we published a copy of the first letter written by a Cashinahua in his own […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 4

By: Kenneth M. Kensinger

The Cashinahua of Southeastern Peru

The Cashinahua, classified linguistically as Panoan, live along the Curanja River of southeastern Peru and along upper reaches of the […]

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