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Culture Summary: Otavalo Quichua
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Meisch, Lynn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Otavalo Quichua. Information is presented on major aspects of Otavalo Quichua culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Otavalo Quichua
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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
- Leon G. Doyon; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- General Otavalo Quichua; Otavalo canton, Imbabura province, Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lynn A. Meisch
- This culture summary is from the article, “Otavalo” by Lynn A. Meisch, in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, [Vol. 7, South America, Johannes Wilbert, ed. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co. 1994. Norman E. Whitten, Jr. was instrumental in the separation of the original Ecuadorian Highland Quechua collection (SD13) into this (SD 16), the Quito Quichua (SD15), and the Saraguro Quichua (SD17) collections, and recommended the new documents included. The synopsis and indexing notes were written by Leon G. Doyon in June 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Quechua Indians