Book
Araucanian child life and its cultural background
Smithsonian Institution • 133 • Published In 1957 • Pages: xx, 439 , 80 plates
By: Hilger, M. Inez (Mary Inez).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of this work is a professional ethnologist and a member of the Order of St. Benedict. The book is divided into two portions, one dealing with the Chilean Araucanians, the other with the Argentine Araucanians. While the main purpose of the work is to describe childhood and child-rearing practices among the Araucanians, such information is set in a full ethnographic description of both Chilean and Argentine groups. Besides data on the life cycle, information is included on material culture, subsistance activities, religion, kinship, political organization, entertainment and art, and history. In addition to using a large amount of first-hand information, and unusually thorough coverage of the literature was made in writing the work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal names
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- Spirits and gods
- Regulation of marriage
- Burial practices and funerals
- Real property
- Sickness
- Socialization
- Processing of basic materials
- Leather, textiles, and fabrics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mapuche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1450-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chile, Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Sister M. Inez Hilger
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-422) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57061662
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indian children-Chile/Indian children--Argentina/Mapuche Indians/Indians of South America--Chile/Indians of South America-Argentina