...Charles L. Eastlack The Tapirapé River flows into the Araguaia from the west at a point approximately 10 degrees 40 minutes south of the Equator. Tampiitaua, a Tapirapé Indian settlement located on the Tapirapé River, was visited by ethnographer Herbert Baldus on two field trips, in 1935...

...Betty J. Meggers Welcome of Tears: The Tapirapé Indians of Central Brazil . By Wagley Charles . New York , 1977 . Oxford University Press . Tables. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 328 . Cloth. $12.95 . Copyright 1978 by Duke...

... Métraux, Wagley went to the Amazon to study another “little community” of native people whose contact with Brazilian national society and economy had commenced about 1900: the Tapirapé. In 1940 the Tapirapé appeared deeply disorganized by four decades of such culture contact. Wagley’s approach was shaped...

..., 1978) fails for Brazil. David Graham Sweet, Appendix (1974). See also Meggers, “Environment and Culture in Amazonia,” in Charles Wagley, ed., Man in the Amazon (Gainesville, 1974), pp. 91-110. 57 Charles Wagley’s Welcome of Tears: The Tapirape Indians of Central Brazil (New York, 1977...