Mary Batten writes about her experience as both an anthropologist and specifically her work and study of the Aché tribe located in rural Paraguay. She describes the customs, culture, art, and daily living of this hunter-gatherer tribe, as well as their rich history, relatively unchanged first by Spanish colonialism, and presently by transnational globalization. With vivid, dynamic photographs by A. Magdalena Hurtado and Kim Hill included, readers will both see and read about how this indigenou More...

Portrait for children of an anthropologist who studies the Ache people of Paraguay and specializes in evolutionary ecology. Intelligent account of doing cultural field work and of life in one of the last extant hunter-gatherer cultures (the Ache live on a reservation, but are permitted to forage in the adjoining national forest, so long as they confine themselves to traditional methods).