book chapter
The peculiarities of French Antarctica, otherwise called (French) America: the islands discovered in our times
Maisonneuve et cie • Paris • Published In 1878 • Pages:
By: Thevet, André, Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
André Thevet visited Brazil in 1555 with the exception of Villegaignon. He gathered, during his short stay at the bay or Rio Janeiro, more information on the Tupinamba than any traveler or even missionary, who wrote on these Indians. He was naive, but his interest was wide and he had access to good informants. Thevet is our best source on the Tupinamba. In the COSMOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE (3:Thevet) are more detailed accounts than those which appear in this previous work. Thevet's style is heavy and confused.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Diet
- Eating
- Ornament
- Personal grooming
- Cannibalism
- Warfare
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tupinamba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Alfred Métraux ; 1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1555
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1555
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] André Thevet
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Alfred Métraux prior to 1956
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05018355
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians