book chapter
The Jivaro
Handbook of South American Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward • 3 • Published In 1948 • Pages: 617-627
By: Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Métraux's article in the Handbook of South American Indians (1948) is an excellent culture summary.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- 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.
- 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1542-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Equador and Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfred Métraux
- This document consists of excerpts
- The entire text will be found in Culture Summary (105).
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46026504
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians