Book
The human soul in the Aymara culture of Pumasara: an ethnographic study in the light of George Herbert Mead and Martin Buber
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Cole, John Tafel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is concerned with dreams and funeral customs of the Aymara. Cole found that it was in these two situations that the Aymara concept of the soul is most clearly defined. In this dissertation, there are data on the meaning and social significance of dreams, death, funeral customs, and eschatology. Throughout these sections, Cole adds many line drawings and also sometimes records proxemic behavior. Since Cole wanted to understand the Aymara from their point of view, numerous passages of the informants' exact words in Spanish are given. This is a community study of Pumasara, Bolivia, and Cole states that the data should be regarded as applying only to this community since he found considerable variation outside of Pumasara. Even within Pumasara there are many differences between Catholics and Protestants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life and death
- Dying
- Burial practices and funerals
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aymara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Barbara A. Yanchek ; Sigrid Khera
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1959
- 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)
- Pumasara, Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Tafel Cole
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Pennsylvania, 1969
- UM 69-21,336
- Includes bibliography and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aymara Indians