Book
Folk literature of the Tehuelche Indians
UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, Los Angeles • 59 • Published In 1984 • Pages: xix, 266
By: Wilbert, Johannes, Simoneau, Karin, Borgatello, Maggiorino, Bórmida, Marcelo, Casamoquela, Rodolfo M., Echeverría Baleta, Mario, Escalada, Federico A., Harrington, Tomás, Hughes, W., Lista, Ramón, Llarás Samitier, Siffredi, Alejandra.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book provides a large collection of Tehuelche narratives recorded over several years. Most of these narratives are translations from original sources in Italian, Gaelic and Spanish. Each narrative is followed by a brief summary and a comprehensive motif index.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Glossary
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural identity and pride
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Verbal arts
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- External relations
- Aftermath of combat
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- 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
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2006
- 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
- 1570-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- Johannes Wilbert and Karin Simoneau, editors ; contributing authors, Maggiorino Borgatello … [et al.]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84020123
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tehuelche Indians--Folklore/Tehuelche mythology