"Four 'expert reports' (perícias) by anthropologists and historians focus on indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso (Cinta Larga, Paresi, Bakairi, Zoró). Commissioned by the Procuradoria Geral da República and used in land tenure litigation, work contains a wealth of ethnohistoric and ethnological information on these peoples and the history of contact"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.