book chapter
Information on Brazil and of its leaders
Revista trimensal de historia e geographia • 6 • Published In 1844 • Pages: 412-443 [incomplete]
By: Anonymous, Métraux, Alfred, Vescelius, Gary S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of this report was an anonymous Jesuit. The report contains only a few pages on the Indians but they give us some data which confirm other statements on important matters, like preferential marriage and revitalism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Linguistic identification
- Alcoholic beverages
- Mode of marriage
- Instigation of war
- Aftermath of combat
- 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
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 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
- 1584
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1584
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Enformacao do Brazil, e de suas Capitanias]
- 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