First published in 2007. Deemed as an important contribution to the study of certain aspects of South American native civilisation, collated over five years, and includes personal observations as well as literature relating to the customs and beliefs of the native Indians in this vast area.

Baron Erland Nordenskiold was Sweden's preeminent ethnographer until his death in 1932. From 1899 to 1914 Nordenskiold made five expeditions to South America, with a sixth in 1926. This cultural history was first published in Sweden in 1912. This edition encompasses certain alterations.