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Social organization and beliefs of the Botocudo of eastern Brazil
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 2 (1) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 93-115
By: Nimuendajú, Curt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The primary focus of this document is religion, covering spirits, magic, souls, ghosts, and myths. It also includes some discussion of kinship, marriage, and government.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Vocabulary
- Settlement patterns
- Arranging a marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Sacred objects and places
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Botocudo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern 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.
- 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; 2019
- 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
- 1915-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central-eastern Minas Gerais and north-central Espirito Santo, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Curt Nimuendajú
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47005758
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Botocudo Indians