Book
Cultural geography of the modern Tarascan area
U.S. Govt. Print. Off. • (7) • Published In 1948 • Pages: vi, 78 , 14 photographic plates
By: West, Robert C. (Robert Cooper).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This otherwise comprehensive cultural geography (the Sierra subregion accounts for approximately two-thirds of the time spent in field survey) focusses mainly on material culture, with an emphasis on agriculture, trade, craft production, and the economy. With frequent historical asides, the author notes changes since first contact with the Spanish.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Speech
- Agriculture
- Food preparation
- General tools
- Internal trade
- External trade
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tarascans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2024
- 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
- Central 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.
- Geographer
- 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
- John Beierle; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central-northern Michoacán, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert C. West ; Prepared in cooperation with the United States Dept. of State as a project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation
- "One of a series of monographs describing the results of the joint field investigations of the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia of Mexico in the Tarascan area of Michoacan, Mexico, 1945-46."
- Occasional unnumbered subtitles are entered when the data refer principally to one or more of the cultural sub-areas of Sierra, Lake Pátzcuaro, La Canada, or Mestizo Tarascans.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 48007513
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tarasco Indians
- Morelia (Mexico)--Description and travel