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The Huichol Indians of Mexico
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History • 10 • Published In 1898 • Pages: 1-14
By: Lumholtz, Carl.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document contains observations on Huichol culture and society between 1894 and 1897. After two months among the neighboring Cora, the author settled in the Huichol town of San Andrés Coamiata. After initial difficulties winning the trust informants he gradually learned the shaman’s songs, thereby gaining the confidence of a wider community. Much of the text is devoted to describing his experiences in the field, with some specific descriptions of Huichol diet, clothing, settlement pattern, dwellings, temple rituals, organized ceremonies, sacred objects and, notably, distilling.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Dwellings
- Religious and educational structures
- Animism
- Mythology
- Cosmology
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Congregations
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- Community structure
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Alcoholic beverages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huichol
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1894-1897
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1894-1898
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Jalisco, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Carl Lumholtz
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Huichol Indians