The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America

The Author
Rayna Green with Melanie Fernandez

214 pages
ISBN  0-7141-2543-1
Laminated Paper Case £15.99

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• An authoritative A-Z reference guide to the Native peoples of North America, for young adults and general readers. Includes contributions, stories, songs and first-hand accounts from Native American writers, artists and community leaders and original objects and photographs from major museums in North America and Britain.

• From the plains to the forests, from the snows of the Arctic Circle to the desert South-west, the Native peoples of North America developed rich and varied cultures. The arrival of Europeans some 500 years ago brought enormous and destructive changes, but today American Indians still protect and renew their identity and traditions.

• This encyclopaedia explores American Indian history from a Native perspective, through entries on events, issues, contemporary and historical art, mythology, gender roles, economics, contact between Indians and Europeans, political sovereignty and self-determination, land and environment.

Inca Myths

The Author
Gary Urton

80 pages
ISBN  0-7141-1791-9
Paperback £6.99
June 1999

• The latest title in the highly popular Legendary Past series provides an accessible introduction to the mythology of the Inca Empire by a leading Andean scholar.

• The dramatic stories the Incas told about themselves and the world around them are only available from post-conquest documents of the Spanish conquistadors and chroniclers. Drawing on both published and unpublished texts and archaeological evidence, Gary Urton presents a variety of mythic accounts of Inca history, explores the mythic traditions of various ethnic groups within the empire and details myths and religious beliefs of the post-conquest colonial descendants of the Incas.

• Other titles in this series:

  Aztec and Maya Myths
  Celtic Myths
  Egyptian Myths
  Greek Myths
  Mesopotamian Myths
  Norse Myths
  Persian Myths
  Roman Myths
  

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