book chapter
Information on the marriage of the Indians of Brazil
Revista trimensal de historia e geographia • Rio De Janeiro • Published In 1846 • Pages: 254-262 [incomplete]
By: Anchieta, José de, Métraux, Alfred, Vescelius, Gary S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very important account by one of the most famous missionaries of the sixteenth century, of marriage rules among the early Tupi of the region of Sao Paulo. The present translation is taken from the original article published in the REVISTA TRIMENSAL of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute for 1846. The original manuscript is to be found in a much larger book of 215 pages, containing various narratives written by Brazilian Jesuits at the close of the sixteenth century, and which today resides in the Biblioteca Eborense. Pages 130-136 of the manuscript are taken up with the Casamentos article. Whether the donor of the manuscript alluded to in the text, Adolpho Varnhagen, gave the Institute the actual manuscript or merely a copy is not made clear, but, whatever the situation, the Institute certainly possesses a facimile if not the real thing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Basis of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Polygamy
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Extramarital sex relations
- 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 ; Gary Vescelius ; 1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1570
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1570
- 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: [Informacão dos Indios do Brasil] The original Portuguese text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Alfred Métraux prior to 1956 ; additional translation by Gary S. Vescelius ca. 1970
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98648816
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians