Meggers, Betty J.

3 publications

Meggers, Betty J.; Evans, Clifford (detail)
1957Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon.
Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 167: xxviii + 664. 112 pls.
—P. 570: {"According to La Barre (1666, p. 14), the Aracaret and Palicour hunted the manatee with a harpoon and traded their catch to the French, English, and Dutch."}
Meggers, Betty J. (detail)
1971Amazonia: man and culture in a counterfeit paradise.
Chicago & New York, Aldine-Atherton: ix + 182.
—Manatees, 25, 33-35, 127, 134, 154, 176.
Meggers, Betty J. (detail)
1977Estéril Amazônia.
Veja No. 456: 48-49. 2 figs. June 1, 1977.
—In Portuguese. A magazine interview in which she urges the raising of manatees in Amazonia as an alternative to cattle raising (49).