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Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco
American Indigena • 3 • Published In 1943 • Pages: 199-209
By: Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the high rate of suicide among the Matako Indians in the missions. After giving ten case histories the author discusses the motives involved, the relation of suicide attempts to personality traits and to the existing acculturation situation. While in the field Métraux observed only one case and most of his information was obtained from the English missionaries in the area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Suicide
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina and Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alfred Métraux
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mataco Indians