Book
Report of the Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer expedition for Huichol ethnography: the Huichols: primitive artists
G.E. Stechert and Company • New York City • Published In 1938 • Pages: lxvi, 826
By: Zingg, Robert M. (Robert Mowry).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document primarily draws on information the author gathered in the field in 1934, with additional data from Carl Lumholtz, who conducted fieldwork among the Huichol from 1894 to 1897. Much of the book is devoted to discussing change and continuity in the social and religious life of the Huichol in the face of increasing contact with Spanish missionaries and the Mexican state. Specific themes include: the place of religion in household relations and community life, mythology and organized ceremonials, sacred arts and symbolic representation, spirituality and acculturation, and technology and economic life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Community structure
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Sacred objects and places
- Verbal arts
- Music
- Dance
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Missions
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Community heads
- Vegetable production
- Diet
- Domesticated animals
- Priesthood
- Dwellings
- Religious and educational structures
- Magic
- Income and demand
- Division of labor by gender
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huichol
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Nayarit and northern Jalisco, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Mowrey Zingg
- Varient title: The Huichols: primitive artists
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 795-796)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 40008113
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Huichol Indians