book chapter
Communication on the very many natural things which dwell in the province of St. Vincent (now São Paulo) systematically described
Collecçãao de noticias para historia e gergrafia das nacões ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios Portuguezés, ou lhes Sáo Visinhas • 1 • Published In 1812 • Pages: 127-179 [incomplete]
By: Anchieta, José de, Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Short treatise in Latin on the natural history of the present state of S. Paulo, containing a few, but interesting, anthropological data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fishing
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnometeorology
- Sexual stimulation
- 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
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 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
- prior to 1560
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1560
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- São Paulo, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- José de Anchieta
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium, quae S. Vincentii (nunc S. Pauli) provinciam incolunt, sistens descriptionem
- The original Latin text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Alfred Métraux prior to 1956
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians