article
Lengua festivals and functional substitutes
Practical anthropology • 14 (1) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 15-36
By: Loewen, Jacob A. (Jacob Abram).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account describes various traditional Enlhet and Enxet festivals for life cycle events, including initiations and promotions within male solidarities. The author also discusses the loss of festival life and accompanying adjustments made in social and religious life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Property system
- Gift giving
- Property in movables
- Music
- Dance
- Visiting and hospitality
- Sodalities
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Puberty and initiation
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Anthropologist
- 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
- 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1889-1963
- 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
- Jacob A. Loewen
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63038045
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lengua Indians