book chapter
Indians on horseback
Dennis Dobson • London • Published In 1957 • Pages:
By: Bolinder, Gustaf.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is the result of three separate trips made by the author, a traveler and explorer, to the Goajiro area in 1920, the 1930’s, and in 1955. The book was written for popular consumption, but nevertheless it contains much valuable ethnographic data on the Goajiro Indians, especially in regard to: names and naming, clothing, topography of the regions, domesticated animals, slavery, “clan” feuds, foreign trade, weapons, property rights and sanctions for violations thereof, puberty customs, childbirth and childhood education, marriage, ceremonial dances, shamans and curing, magic, funerary customs, organized banditry, and mythology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Naming
- Normal garb
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Slavery
- Inter-community relations
- Weapons
- Real property
- Property offenses
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Mythology
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1961: John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1920, 1930s, 1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gajira Peninsula, Colombia and Venezuela, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gustaf Bolinder
- Only pages 1-10 and 47-164 of this source have been processed, since the remainder of the book presents information not pertinent to the Goajiro proper, as for example the sections dealing with the mestizo elements, etc.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians