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On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society • 14 • Published In 1876 • Pages: 483-602
By: Gabb, William M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a basic work on the Talamancan tribes of Costa Rica. For most of the narrative portion of the work, the cultures of the Bribri (given particular focus), Cabecar and Terraba (Tiribi) are treated as one, with relatively scant mention of the Boruca (Brunka). Although of modest length, and over half of it vocabulary and grammar, the paper contains a substantial amount of information on various phases of native life. The author presents data on social and political organization, the life cycle, economic life and diet, physical anthropology, material culture, and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Community heads
- Population
- Burial practices and funerals
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Spirits and gods
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Diet
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Semantics
- Linguistic identification
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1873-1874
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1873-1874
- 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
- Wm. M. Gabb
- Read before the American Philosophical Society, Aug. 20, 1875.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 18002294
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Talamanca Indians