People

Savages

Joe Kane
© 1995 MacMillan
ISBN 0-333-63295-8
The saga of the Huaorani people's fight against the exploitation of oil reserves in their homeland in Amazonian Ecuador.

 

The Spears of Twighlight

Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

Phillippe Descola
© 1996 Harper Collins
ISBN 0-00-255609-X
An ethnologists account of life among the Achuar, one of Ecuador's most isolated tribal groups.

 

Vanishing Amazon

Mirella Ricciardi
© 1991 Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN 0-297-83089-9
A photographic portrait of tribal life in the Amazon Basin.

 

Millenium Tribal wisdom in the modern world

David Maybury-Lewis
© 1992 Viking Penguin
ISBN 0-670-82935-8

 

Green Guerillas

Ed. Hellen Collinson
© 1996 Latin America Bureau
ISBN 1-899365-04-4
Environmental conflicts and initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Latin Americans

Hugh O'Shaughnessy
© 1988 BBC Books
ISBN 0-563-21376-6

 

Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon

In South America with Jack Pizzey

Jack Pizzey
© 1985,6 Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Macdonald, Queen Anne Press
ISBN 0-356-12697-8

 

Lost Cities of the Maya

Claude Baudez and Sydney Picasso
© 1987 Thames and Hudson
ISBN 0-500-30009-7

 

Historical Atlas of World Mythology

Vol.II: The way of the seeded earth, Part 3: Mythologies of the primitive planters: The Middle and Southern Americas

Joseph Campbell
© 1989 The Joseph Campbell Trust, Harper and Row, publishers
ISBN 0-06-096352-2

 

Myths and Legends

Mexico and Peru

Lewis Spence
© 1920 Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Reprinted: 1994 Senate.
ISBN 1-85958-007-6
A somewhat dated collection of the myths of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. The author's cultural opinions colour the book, but, even so, it contains much interesting material which can not be found easily elsewhere.