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 Brasil168Published 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