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An unknown people in an unknown land: an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them
Seeley and Co. Limited • London • Published In 1911 • Pages:
By: Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), Jones, H. T. Morrey (Humphrey Tudor Morrey), ed..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This early monograph is part ethnography and part autobiography. It covers material culture, settlement patterns, subsistence, and religion, as well as harrowing traveler anecdotes. Although the author seems biased against local beliefs and practices, he is sympathetic to their general condition and character. Grubb was in the field before Hawtrey, who published his account a decade earlier, and it is unclear who may have borrowed from whom.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Fowling
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Work in skins
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Settlement patterns
- Utensils
- Travel
- Visual arts
- Visiting and hospitality
- Ethics
- External relations
- Nonfulfillment of obligations
- Warfare
- Sorcery
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Enxet and Enlhet
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1889-1906
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1889-1909
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Presidente Hayes, Paraguay
- NotesAdditional notes
- By W. Barbrooke Grubb, edited by H. T. Morrey Jones
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 44014130
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lengua Indians
- Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)