book chapter
Treatise on the land of Brazil
histories of Brazil • (5) • Published In 1922 • Pages: 125-232 [incomplete]
By: Gandavo, Pero de Magalhães d.1576, Stetson, John Batterson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author had a first hand knowledge of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. His information is precise, but somewhat superficial. He covers broadly all aspects of early Tupinamba culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cannibalism
- Aftermath of combat
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- 1574
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1574
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Pero de Magalhães, now translated for the first time and annotated by John B. Stetson, Jr., with a facsimile of the Portuguese original, 1576
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Tratado da terra do Brazil (1574)]
- The original Portuguese text is not included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 22023563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians