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Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco
Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropologia • 4 • Published In 1944 • Pages: HRAF MS: i, 11 [original: 7-18]
By: Métraux, Alfred, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Métraux visited the Mataco in 1939 with the intention of doing a full-scale study, but was prevented by sickness from doing so. This article is a publication of some of his field notes from this trip. Data are included on birth and infancy, abortion and infanticide, marriage, the functions of the chief, religious beliefs, the witch doctors, magic, and the belief on the reality of dreams. Métraux is a well-known French-Argentine ethnographer.
- 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
- article
- 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 ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alfred Métraux
- Translation of: Nota Etnografia sobre los Indio Mataco del Gran Chaco.
- The original Spanish text is not included
- Translated from the Spanish for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mataco Indians