book chapter
Information on the mission of Father Christavao Gouvêa to parts of Brazil in the year 83: or a narrative epistle of a trip and a Jesuit mission
Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil • 168 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 270-275 [incomplete]
By: Cardim, Fernão, d. 1625, Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report on a visit to the religious settlements of the Brazilian coast in 1583 contains a few details on the ethnography of the Tupinamba. These data figure also in Cardim's 'Principio and origem' but are given in this report in somewhat different form (see 9: Cardim).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal hygiene
- Music
- Dance
- Community heads
- Infant care
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- 1583
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1583
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fernão Cardim
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: ['Informação da missão do P. Christovão Gouvêa as partes do Brasil anno 83 ou narrative epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica.']
- The original Portuguese text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Alfred Métraux prior to 1956
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41002542
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians