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Description of Patagonia
Coleccion de obras y documentos relativos a la historia antiqua y moderna de las provincias del Rio de la Plata, edited by Pedro De Angelis • 6 • Published In 1837 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-17 [Original: 63-81 ]
By: De Viedma, Antonio, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
De Viedma was a colonial administrator who established a colony in this area in the eighteenth century. In addition to describing the area, the source gives considerable data on the Tehuelche, covering such things as warfare, religion, chieftainship, hunting technique and material culture. The document is valuable because it is a first hand account compiled before much acculturation had taken place.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Descriptive somatology
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Diet
- Condiments
- Work in skins
- Normal garb
- Personal grooming
- Water supply
- Lumbering
- Paint and dye manufacture
- Weapons
- Utensils
- Division of labor by gender
- Travel
- Routes
- Animal transport
- Postures
- Decorative art
- Oratory
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Polygamy
- Community heads
- Tribe and nation
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Aftermath of combat
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Life and death
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- General sex restrictions
- Premarital sex relations
- Extramarital sex relations
- Infant care
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tehuelche
- 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
- Southern South America
- 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.
- Colonial Administrator
- 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 Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1780-1784
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780-1784
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Antonio De Viedma
- Translation of: [descripcion de la costa meridional del sur llamada vulgarmente Patagonica]
- Translated from the Spanish for HRAF by Mr. Sydney J. Muirden in 1958
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tehuelche Indians