American Indians from Suriname

Tacoma, J.: 1963 Utrecht, hardcover 180 blz. + 20 plates complete. American Indians from Suriname. A Physical Anthropological Study by J. Tacoma is a physical-anthropological dissertation on Suriname’s indigenous populations, based on measurements and analysis of skeletal remains and living individuals to describe their morphology and variation. The book places Surinamese Amerindians in a broader South and Central American context and discusses origin, migration and intermixture, making it an important early scientific reference on the physical anthropology of Suriname’s native groups. In good condition