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IN “The Cactus Eaters” the author records the results of a stay of four months on the Goajira Peninsula on the southern shore of the Caribbean Sea and a boundary area between Colombia and Venezuela. His purpose was to observe the customs and culture of the Goajiro Indians. Although a stock-raising people, it is evident that in level of culture they have advanced little beyond the hunting stage, and the author discusses the interesting question of the nature of their subsistence in pre-Conquest days, as their stock must have been derived from the Spaniard. In view of environmental conditions and cultural indications, it is suggested that they may have been a people of a fishing culture.
The Cactus Eaters
Julian A.
Weston
By. Pp. 240 + 16 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, Ltd., 1937.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Cactus Eaters. Nature 139, 1039 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391039d0
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