book chapter
The Kogi: a tribe of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Vol. 2
Editorial Iqueima • Bogota • Published In 1951 • Pages:
By: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This volume covers mainly mythology (in the form of translated texts of myths, with some consideration given to variant versions), religion, and the life-cycle. Reichel-Dolmatoff emphasizes the pervasive role of religion in the society, and its impact upon personality development. But even more fundamental are the two major themes which influence and are manifested in each of these cultural dimensions - namely, food and sex. In the concluding chapter a general psychocultural interpretation of Kogi life is presented through an analysis of the focal conflicts relating to food, sex, and associated patterns of aggression. The appendix includes a quite interesting and useful discussion of the author's field research methods and problems. In summary, this is a good detailed, descriptive ethnography of a strikingly distinctive and unsual people and culture. Comparative psychologists as well as anthropologists will find a fascinating body of data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Mythology
- 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 ; Robert O. Lagacé ; 1967-1968
- 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
- 1946-1950
- 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 II.
- The original Spanish text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden
- The bibliography, pp. 299-310, the subject index, pp. 302-305, and the index of place names for the two volumes (this volume and 1: Reichel-Dolmatoff in this file), pp. 306-314, are omitted in the translation
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kagaba Indians