book chapter
Cuna chrestomathy
Etnologiska Studier • 18 • Published In 1951 • Pages: 191
By: Holmer, Nils Magnus.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of Cuna texts recorded by the author on a visit to Panama in 1947. Some brief ethnological notes and some grammatical notes are included. In the original, the texts are given in Cuna with explanatory notes on the even pages and in English with comments on the odd pages. Code numbers indicating the informant who furnished the text accompany each text; the list of informants with the code may be found on pp. 12-15.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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 chapter
- 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
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Panama
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nils M. Holmer
- This document consists of excerpts.
- The original Cuna text is not included
- With the exception of a few passages on dialectic differences and stylistics, the grammatical notes have been omitted from the file
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn94033729
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuna Indians