book chapter
The Kogi: a tribe of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Vol. 1
El Instituto • 4 (1-2) • Published In 1950 • Pages: HRAF MS: 342 [original: 319 ], plates
By: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Reichel-Dolmatoff gives a rich and precise description of Kogi culture as he found it during the 1940s and as he could reconstruct it for the past from various historical evidences (archaeology, archives, tribal traditions and myths). He presents an extensive description of the economy, material culture, social organization, intellectual culture and religion. Most valuable is the discussion of the now nearly broken-down social organization which consists of sex-bound groups (túxe and dáke) with pronounced totemistic features. The author also demonstrates the great importance of religion in Kogi culture. For the second part of this monograph see 2: Reichel-Dolmatoff.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kogi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South 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
- Sigrid Khera ; 1967
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Translation of: Los Kogi : Una tribu de al Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Torno I.
- The original Spanish text is not included
- Information on sex-bound groups (túxe and dáke) has been indexed for Clans (614)
- Translated for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden.
- Numerous typographical errors have produced inconsistent orthography for native terms. Underlined words are native terms. The 'Analytical index for the first part,' pp. 305-314, and the Index of Place Names are omitted in the translation. For a glossary of common terms see 2: Reichel-Dolmatoff, pp. 315-316.
- The bibliography is not included. Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 48031481
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kagaba Indians