book chapter
Information on the land of Brazil
Revista trimensal de historia e geographia • 6 • Published In 1865 • Pages: 91-94 [incomplete]
By: Nobrega, Manoel da, Métraux, Alfred, Vescelius, Gary S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Short report on the Tupinamba by one of their first missionaries. The most valuable passage refers to the revivalistic movements among these Indians.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Property system
- Mythology
- Ecstatic religious practices
- Magicians and diviners
- 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
- 1550
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1550
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Manoel da Nobrega
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Informacão das terras 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