Nomads of the Longbow [1] is a book by Allan R. Holmberg, an anthropologist who studied Peruvian and other South American indigenous peoples. The book concerns itself with the indigenous Bolivian Sirionó people, whom he determined to be rather backward and undeveloped in terms of culture and civilization. This determination was applied to other indigenous groups of people from both North and South America.[2] Holmberg's conclusions, and his basis for those conclusions, have been strongly rejected in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
References
edit- ^ Holmberg, AR. 1950. Nomads of the Longbow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- ^ "The Myth of the Passive Indian". April 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-28.