Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution

The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492 • Provides more than 300 photograph

In part due to the recent Yanomami controversy, which has rocked anthropology to its very core, there is renewed interest in the discipline's history and intell