"Innovative collection of 10 articles by anthropologists and medical specialists with experience among South American indigenous peoples, principally in Brazil. Overall objective of volume is to integrate bioecological and sociocultural factors in the understanding of health and sickness in indigenous societies. Articles are thematically organized in three parts: 1) studies of pre-history and contact history, 2) ethnomedicine, and 3) impact of socioeconomic processes on health/sickness profiles"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.