book chapter

Head hunters of the Amazon: seven years of exploration and adventure

Duffield and CompanyNew YorkPublished In 1923 • Pages:

By: Up de Graff, Fritz W., d.1927.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author spent seven years of exploration and adventure in the forests of the Upper Amazon basin The material in the book on the Jivaro has been excerpted There is an exceptionally good account of a war raid, victory ceremonial, and the technique of head-shrinking.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Hunting and trapping
Tillage
Weapons
Travel
Daily routine
Warfare
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Jivaro
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
South America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Amazon and Orinoco
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.
Explorer
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
Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950-1956
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1897
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1897
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Peru
NotesAdditional notes
by F.W. Up de Graff, with a foreword by Kermit Roosevelt …
This document consists of excerpts
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
23005829
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians/Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley/Amazon River/South America--Description and travel