book chapter
Nomads of the long bow: the Siriono of eastern Bolivia
U.S. Govt. Print. Off. • (10) • Published In 1950 • Pages: iv,104 plates
By: Holmberg, Allan R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains almost all that is known about the Sirionó. It is an excellent study, carefully done and well presented. The section on sex, pages 63-65, has been omitted because it contains no information that is not more fully presented in 2:Holmberg. There are no other omissions from this source.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Division of labor by gender
- Kinship terminology
- Suicide
- Reproduction
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sirionó
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- MPK ; 1950-1956; John Beierle 8/25/05
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1940-1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Departments of Beni and Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Allan R. Holmberg ; prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of State as a project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation
- This document consists of excerpts 'The data in slightly different form were presented to the Graduate School of Yale University in partial fulfillment for the degree of doctor of philosophy.'
- Pages 63-65 are not included
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 100)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50060676
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siriono Indians