Book
The health and customs of the Miskito Indians of northern Nicaragua
Instituto Indigenista Interamericano • Mexico • Published In 1946 • Pages:
By: Pijoan, Michel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the result of a medical survey made during a two months stay in settlements in the Coco River basin in Nicaragua. This survey was a preliminary to forming a health program among the inhabitants. A few pages are devoted to an historical survey and a cultural summary of the modern Indians. The bulk of the work consists of data specifically related to public health: disease factors of the tropical environment, racial and morphological description, and considerable information on the diet, nutrition, and diseases which are most prevalent in the area. The bibliography is contained in the footnotes, and is fairly extensive, but deals primarily with medical subjects rather than the Mosquito culture itself.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Nutrition
- Anthropometry
- Racial identification
- History
- Tillage
- Diet
- Elimination
- Public health and sanitation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Miskito
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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 America
- 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.
- Physician
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1958: John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1945
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1502-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Coco River Basin, Nicaragua
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michel Pijoan
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Miskito Indians