Opening Slide Show: 16


Location: Amazon (Brazil)
Images: Native South Americans; instruments; weapons; dwelling
Comment: Original cultures develop in community with tools, musical instruments, weapons, baskets, and dwellings for shelter.
Cultural humanities: (A) Like many other Latin American humanities creators, in his renowned Cuban novel, Lost Steps / Los pasos perdidos (1962), Alejo Carpentier takes the reader on a journey from the modern world into a pre-modern one; (B) magical realism.