title: Tuscarora: A History (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building)
author:  Anthony F. C. Wallace 
description: This delightful book reads more like a memoir than an ethnographic history, but it is filled with great ethnographic and historical perspectives. Demonstrated in the text is a sense of humilityin essence, Wallace writing candidly about being corrected by community members, including his hosts  overall Wallace adds to the growing aggregate of Haudenosaunee cultural and historical books  Highly recommended.  <i>CHOICE</i><br /><br />an accessible, insightful, and challenging work that embodies the self-aware, self-critical thinking that now characterizes the discipline of anthropology  <i>Tuscarora: A History</i> is free of illusions, worshipfulness, pity. Its an exercise in, and an exemplar of, the good mind.  <i>Artvoice</i>
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  Preferred Citation: von Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph. _Tribes of India: The
  Struggle for Survival._ Berkeley: University of California Press, c1982 1982.
  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8r29p2r8/
  
   **Tribes of India**
  
  _**The Struggle for Survival**_
  
   **Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf**
  
   **UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS**
  
  _**Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford**_
  
   **© 1982 The Regents of the University of California**
  
  To
  
  N. V. Raja Reddi and Urmila Pingle
  
  in memory of our journeys
  
  in tribal country
  
  Preferred Citation: von Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph. _Tribes of India: The
  Struggle for Survival._ Berkeley: University of California Press, c1982 1982.
  http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8r29p2r8/
  
  To
  
  N. V. Raja Reddi and Urmila Pingle
  
  in memory of our journeys
  
  in tribal country
  
   **Preface**
  
  ― xi ―
  
  This book tells of observations among Indian tribal populations spanning the
  period from 1940 to 1980. Ever since 1936, when a study of the Konyak Nagas
  mar