Book
The Talamancan tribes of Costa Rica
The Peabody Museum • 43 (2) • Published In 1962 • Pages: x, 108
By: Stone, Doris.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a general ethnography of Talmancan peoples, focusing almost exclusively on the Bribri and Cabécar groups. The data presented include geography (divided culturally into the Chirripó river valley [both upper or Central Plateau, and lower or Caribbean coastal plain], upper and lower Talamanca [canton], and the adjacent Pacific slopes), historical orientation, the language, subsistence activities, houses and house types, dress and ornamentation, transportation, manufacture, the life cycle, recreation and leisure activities, religion and magic, mythology and native arts (dance, songs, etc.). Information on medicine men and their activities is of particular interest. The author presents translations of native texts pertaining to various myths and songs. There are three appendices: first deals with cultivated foods and domestic animals; the second has scores of two Bribri songs; the third, written by Carlos Meléndez Ch., is presented as a separate document in this collection. The author was an ethnologist and archaeologist with a special interest in Central America.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Texts translated into english
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Clans
- Kinship terminology
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Diet
- Dwellings
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Traditional history
- Music
- Texts in the speaker's language
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1956-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bribri and Cabecar peoples,southern Costa Rica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Doris Z. Stone
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-108)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62052039
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Talamanca Indians