book chapter
Description of the state of Maranhão, Pará, Corupá and Rio das Amazonas made by Mauricio de Heriarte, Auditor General and Overseer of Morals under Don Pedro de Mello, year 1662
Imprensa do filho de C. Gerold • Vienna D'austria • Published In 1874 • Pages:
By: Heriarte, Mauricio de fl., 1662, Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de, Visconde de Porto Seguro, Vescelius, Gary S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the published version of MS 5880 of the Imperial Library of Vienna. The original seventeenth century orthography has been preserved in the translation. The author was Auditor General and 'overseer of morals' under the Portuguese governor in Brazil in1662. The book contains several passages dealing with the Tupinamba living in Maranhao region as observed by Heriarte; these passages, sections 10-15 in the text, have been translated and reproduced for the files. Heriarte displays an extreme religious bias in his evaluation of Tupinamba culture, but his actual observations of specific objects and events are probably essentially correct.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Military organization
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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.
- Foreign Resident
- 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.
- 2: Fair
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- EJ ; 1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1622
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1662
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ilha de Marajo, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mauricio de Heriarte
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Descripção do estado do Maranhão, Pará, Corupá e Rio das Amazonas, feita por Mauricío de Heriarte, Ouvidor-Geral, Provedor-Mó e Auditor, que foi pelo Governador D. Pedro de Mello, no Anno de 1662
- The original foreign text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Gary S. Vescelius ca. 1971
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 03017739
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians