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Culture Summary: Guajiro
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2012 • Pages:
By: Perrin, Michel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Guajiro people. Information is presented on major aspects of the Guajiro culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Goajiro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Venezuela and Columbia, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michel Perrin
- This culture summary is based on the article, "Goajiro" by Michel Perrin, in the Encyclopedia of World Culture, Vol. 7, South America, Johannes Wilbert, ed. 1994. MacMillan Reference, USA. Leon Doyon updated the population data in August 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians