Book
The Jívaro: people of the sacred waterfalls
Anchor Press / Doubleday • Garden City, N.y. • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Harner, Michael J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This general work on the Jivaro Indians focuses on the specific and prominent aspects of the culture such as the headhunting and the drug use, showing the socio-economic integration of these aspects with the rest of the culture, notably with the religious system Data include history and culture change material which the author made a special effort to secure Kindred tribes such as Aguaruna, Huambisa and Achuare have been marked for this source as Jivaro, though they are treated in the source as alien tribes, being traditional enemies of the Jivaro.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Production and supply
- Social control
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Animism
- Sacred objects and places
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957, 1964, 1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1956-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael J. Harner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-219)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians