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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS able description (pp. 66-72) of the still earlier and more primitive culture of the first coast dwellers. As the book was written before Spinden had published anything on the Archaic Type, there is no hint of the real significance of these very early people. Dr. Wiesse makes the important suggestion that there was not only contact but strife between the earliest folk and the more advanced Chimu and Nasca successors, a suggestion vividly supported by the vase paintings of the Chimus, in which battle scenes between well-armed and unarmed warriors are frequent. Further, Dr. Wiesse gives a succinct and valuable outline of the chief features and problems of the Tiahuanaco culture. The chronological aspect of the discussion merits special commendation for its reasonableness; especially important in this connection is what Dr. Wiesse says (pp. 93, 94) of Llojepaya, a group of ruins on the present margin of Lake Titicaca. These ruins are in the same style as those of Tiahuanaco, and they prove that the Lake did not reach to Tiahuanaco at the time the two sites were occupied. This is an effective rebuttal of Posnansky's pretensions that Tiahuanaco was a port. A full, perhaps unnecessarily full, discussion of the long-since discredited conjectures of Angrand as to the possible Toltec origin of the builders of Tiahuanaco is given and a very full and valuable account of the god Huiraccocha (pp. 104-12I). This is followed by a helpful and stimulating description (pp. I2I-I49) of conditions on the coast and in the highlands in the times immediately preceding the Inca period. Dr. Wiesse begins his account of the Inca period with an exposition of the sanest theories concerning the origin of the Incas. Following in the footsteps of Uhle, he concludes that the Incas were neither more nor less than a tribe who lived near Cuzco, who were descended from former subjects of the old Tiahuanaco empire and who gradually built up a new empire for themselves. Equally satisfactory and sound is the date chronology. There is an important account of the history of the growth of the Inca power. The division of the Inca period into a "feudal" and a "unified" epoch is suggestive, original, and convenient. The further division into "dynasties" may seem to some unnecessary and unwarranted. Following this is a wholly admirable summary of the component parts of the Inca dominion, enriched with many apt quotations from old chroniclers. Then, with the work of Saavedra, Belaunde, Cunow, and Uhle for a basis, Dr. Wiesse gives a reconstruction of the social organization of the Inca dominion. The book is brought to a close by an account of the physical and intellectual aspects of the Inca culture which, though brief, is exceedingly comprehensive and valuable. With the exception of a marked lack of care in the spelling of foreign proper names, the book is well documented, authorities in plenty being quoted. It is a pity that such errors as "Bourborug" for Bourbourg (p. I31), "Prescot" for Prescott (p. I6I), and "Wilson" for Winsor (p. I64) should be allowed to creep into bibliographical references otherwise so excellent. Despite the faults which have been noted, one may say without hesitation that the book should stand beside Beuchat; Joyce, and Markham on the anthropologist's work table. It is the best summary of Andean anthropology to be found.