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Culture Summary: Talamancans
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2012 • Pages:
By: Bozzoli de Wille, María Eugenia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Talamancans. Information is presented on major aspects of the Talamancan culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Talamancans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leon G. Doyon; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- southern Costa Rica
- NotesAdditional notes
- María Eugenia Bozzoli de Wille
- This culture summary is based on the article “Boruca, Bribri and Cabécar” by María Eugenia Bozzoli de Wille, in The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8, Middle America and Caribbean, James W. Dow, 1995, New York: Macmillan Reference USA. Leon G. Doyon revised the ethnonyms for the Teribe, and updated the population figures in August and September, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Talamanca Indians