book chapter
The universal cosmography
[s.n.] • Paris • Published In 1575 • Pages:
By: Thevet, André, Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this excerpt, the accounts are more detailed than those which appear in 2:Thevet (1878).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Mythology
- Menstruation
- Postnatal care
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Puberty and initiation
- 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: [La cosmographie universelle]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Alfred Métraux prior to 1956
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians