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The Aymara: Strategies in Human Adaptation to a Rigorous Environment
. Ed(S): Schull, William J.; Rothhammer, Francisco
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hardcover. Editor(s): Schull, William J.; Rothhammer, Francisco. Series: Studies in Human Biology. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
South America's Andean highlands have seen the rise and decline of several impressive, indigenous civilizations. Separated somewhat in time and place, each developed its distinctive socio-cultural accouterments but all shared a need to adjust to the individual, societal and environmental limitations imposed by life at high altitude. Partial oxygen pressure, temperature and humidity fall systematically as altitude rises, but there are other changes as well. Darwin, Forbes, von Humboldt, von Tschudi and other naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who weaved their way through South America commented repeatedly on the tolerance or apparent indifference of the indigenes to the ... Read more
South America's Andean highlands have seen the rise and decline of several impressive, indigenous civilizations. Separated somewhat in time and place, each developed its distinctive socio-cultural accouterments but all shared a need to adjust to the individual, societal and environmental limitations imposed by life at high altitude. Partial oxygen pressure, temperature and humidity fall systematically as altitude rises, but there are other changes as well. Darwin, Forbes, von Humboldt, von Tschudi and other naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who weaved their way through South America commented repeatedly on the tolerance or apparent indifference of the indigenes to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Human Biology
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792309697
SKU
V9780792309697
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