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Aspects of the Avunculate in the Guajiro culture
Primitive man • 14 • Published In 1941 • Pages: 1-13
By: Santa Cruz, Antonio.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a summation of part of the material gained by the author on a field trip to the Guajira peninsula in the summer of 1940. He analyzes avuncular-nepotic relationships first from the point of view of the uncle and nephew, and then from the point of view of the uncle and niece.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Mode of marriage
- Inheritance
- Arranging a marriage
- Social control
- 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
- article
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961: John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Guajira Peninsula, Colombia, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Antonio Santa Cruz
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians