Book
The Canela (Eastern Timbira), I: an ethnographic introduction
Smithsonian Institution Press • (33) • Published In 1990 • Pages: xix, 487
By: Crocker, William H. (William Henry).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is about the Canela Indians of the municipio of Barra do Corda, Brazil with comparison to the neighboring Apanyekra Canela. , who are culturally very similar and are used in this study for comparisons. The work is divided into five parts. Part I describes the field situation and the methods used. Part II provides ethnographic background materials ranging from ecology and acculturation, through the various annual cycles, to material and recreative culture. Part III presents socialization, psychological orientations, and the social, political, and terminological (kinship) systems. Part IV is devoted to religion taken in its broadest sense and includes the festival system, individual rites of passage, mythical history and cosmology, as well as information of shamanism, ethnobiology, pollution, and medicine. Part V is a presentation and analysis of the Canela's special kind of dualism. The epilogue brings the reader up to 1989 in certain topics, and the appendices provide information on the Canela research collections (material artifacts, photographs, films, magnetic tapes, manuscripts) at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (p. ii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Life history materials
- Age stratification
- Moieties
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Organized ceremonial
- Annual cycle
- Ordering of time
- Music
- Dance
- Sex training
- Kinship terminology
- Semantics
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Canela
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- Book
- 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
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1957-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Maranhão, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- William H. Crocker
- Stamped on t.p.: Issued Dec. 13, 1990
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-384)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89600303
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Canella Indians