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  1. Dramatic Elements in Ritual Possession.Alfred Métraux & James H. Labadie - 1955 - Diogenes 3 (11):18-36.
    The phenomenon of “possession” continues to elude satisfactory explanation because of the ambiguity of its nature. It belongs to one of those marginal zones where beliefs and rites are allied in the closest possible way to still obscure psychological mechanisms. We know that the phenomenon dates from antiquity, and that in numerous so-called primitive societies it is one of the means by which the faithful communicate with the supernatural. Our object is to offer a contribution to the clarification of this (...)
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  2. The Ancient Civilizations of the Amazon: the Present Status of the Question of Their Origins.Alfred Métraux & Elaine P. Halperin - 1959 - Diogenes 7 (28):91-106.
    Scarcely fifty years ago the “Indian sphinx” posed enigmas that seemed simple. Known pre-Columbian civilizations were relatively few, and their past, however obscure, could be considered recent in contrast to the millenniums that separate us from the cultures of the ancient Orient. Today this is no longer true. The emergence of new archeological horizons has singularly transformed our summary view of the history of man in the Western Hemisphere. The date of the first human migrations through the Bering Straits has (...)
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  3. The Inca Empire: Despotism or Socialism.Alfred Métraux & S. Alexander - 1961 - Diogenes 9 (35):78-98.
    The true character of the Inca Empire is poorly set forth in works dealing with its economic and social structure. Too many historians or sociologists have attempted, in their enthusiasm, to make of it a state corresponding to a modern formula : a socialist, a totalitarian or a welfare state. From the sixteenth century on, how many arbitrary pictures have been drawn, propped up by quotations! In fact, among the chronicles and reports and documents which Spain, that rummager of old (...)
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    The Revolution of the Ax.Alfred Metraux - 1959 - Diogenes 7 (25):28-40.
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