Book
Tribes and temples: a record of the expedition to Middle America conducted by the Tulane University of Louisiana in 1925
Tulane University • 2 (1) • Published In 1927 • Pages: 4, 239-536, [16]
By: Blom, Frans, Lafarge, Oliver.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a generalized description of an expedition through the Chiapas highlands undertaken by an archaeologist and an ethnologist. There are detailed descriptions and pictures of ceramics, textiles, clothing, basketry, buildings, and other items of material culture. Descriptions of settlements, land use, political institutions and religion are sketchy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tzeltal
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- Sigrid Khera ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925
- 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)
- Chiapas, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Frans Blom and Oliver LaFarge
- Only pp. 239-258, 325-400, 465-478, 485, 503-504, 523-536, and one map are included
- Bibliography: p. [523]-536
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tzeltal Indians