Excerpt from Handbook of South American Indians, Vol. 3: The Tropical Forest TribesTribes of the right bank of the Guapore River, by Claude levi-strauss. Introduction Tribal divisions Culture Bibliography Tribes of eastern Bolivia and the Madeira Headwaters, by Alfred Metraux The Chiquitoans and other tribes of the Province of Chiquitos. Tribal divisions and languages The Chiquitoan linguistic family History of the Province of Chiquitos The culture of the Chiquito proper The Manasi Language and habitat Culture The modern Churapa History Culture The sixteenth-century ethnography of the Chiquitos region.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.