TY  - CHAP
AU  - Krause, Fritz, 1881-1963
AU  - Schütze, Frieda
PY  - 1911
DA  - 1911//
TI  - In the wilderness of Brazil: report and results of the Leipzig Araguaia Expedition of 1908
PB  - R. Voigtländers Verlag
CY  - Leipzig
KW  - Caraja Indians
KW  - Karajá
KW  - Carajá
KW  - Descriptive somatology
KW  - History
KW  - Animal by-products
KW  - Mats and basketry
KW  - Woven and other interworked fabrics
KW  - Ornament
KW  - Personal grooming
KW  - Body alterations
KW  - Ceramic technology
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Weapons
KW  - General tools
KW  - Utensils
KW  - Exchange transactions
KW  - Games
KW  - Decorative art
KW  - Representative art
KW  - Musical instruments
KW  - Literary texts
KW  - Community heads
KW  - Burial practices and funerals
KW  - Sorcery
KW  - Medical therapy
AB  - This ethnography opens with a critical review of the historical literature on the Karajá. Next, the three "tribal" subgroups are distinguished (the Karajá proper, the Javahé (Šavajé), and the Shambioá (Šambioá), indicating for each their nomenclature, location, and distribution. The Karajá proper are subdivided into North and South hordes, manifesting a degree of cultural difference. Regarding social organization, information is presented on the role of village chiefs, legal norms and sanctions, status distinctions, forms of greeting, and inter-tribal relations involving trade, warfare, and the treatment of captives. A highlight is the pattern of inter-village relations in which a visit must commence with a wrestling match between the men of the two villages. Some aspects of the life cycle are also covered, including marriage, sex, family relations, pregnancy and birth, the care, activities and status of children, and death and burial. Additional data are given on population, settlement patterns and settlement plans, the subsistence economy and food patterns, trade and exchange transactions, division of labor, technology and crafts, magic, sorcery, magical therapy, folk medicine and morbidity, and Karajá knowledge and opinions of a number of surrounding tribes.
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=sp09-005
LA  - English
N1  - Fritz Krause
ID  - sp09-005
Y1  - 2022-06-25
ER  -