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The Tarahumara: an Indian tribe of northern Mexico
The University of Chicago Press • Chicago, Illinois • Published In 1935 • Pages: xix, 412 , plates
By: Bennett, Wendell Clark, Zingg, Robert M. (Robert Mowry).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comprehensive study of the Tarahumaras of northern Mexico. Part I, written by Zingg, describes Tarahumara material culture and physical environment. Particular attention is paid to economic activities such as animal husbandry, agriculture, and handicrafts. Native knowledge and utilization of wild animals and plants are recorded in the chapters on ethnozoology and ethnobotany. Part II, written by Bennett, is concerned with human relationships and social organization such as political structure, kinship, marriage, birth and death, shamans, fiestas, religion, sports, and social control. Part III, written by both authors, summarizes the descriptive data and formulates certain conclusions regarding the historical trends and distributional patterns of Tarahumara cultural traits.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tarahumara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1930-1931
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chihuahua, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Wendell C. Bennett and Robert M. Zingg
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-401) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tarahumara Indians