Book
Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina)
Walter Kaudern • 9 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 127
By: Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Métraux took down these tales and myths during an interval in his field trip to study the Toba and Pilaga. His interviews were short and casual, and mainly limited to two informants. He had frequent opportunities to ask questions about matters touched upon in the tales. The tales are divided into groups concerning: the universe, the destruction of the world, the trickster and his adventures, spirits, the origin of women, fire and mythical characters, animals, and tales of European origin, or with predominant European elements. There is a series of notes appended to the tales relating to various aspects of the ethnography of the Matco as suggested by the tales. At the time of his field work Métraux was an ethnologist on the staff of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literature
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mataco
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933
- 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)
- Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Dr. Alfred Métraux
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- s 38000001
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mataco Indians