book chapter
The headshrinkers of Ecuador
Masterkey • 10 • Published In 1936 • Pages: 201-203
By: Dickey, Herbert Spencer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dr. Dickey spent the greater part of ninteen years among the Jivaro The material in this article on head-shrinking was gathered during an expedition sponsored by the Adventurer's Club of Los Angeles in 1936.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Aftermath of combat
- 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.
- Physician
- 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
- 1900-1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Equador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Herbert Spencer Dickey
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29009308
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians