book chapter
A relation of the great river of Amazons in South America: containing all the particulars of Father Christopher d'Acugna's voyage, made at the command of the King of Spain. Taken from the Spanish original of the said Chr. d'Acugna, Jesuit
Voyages and discoveries in South-America • London • Published In 1698 • Pages: 155-161 [incomplete]
By: Cristóbal de, Cristóbal de b.1597.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an early English translation of Acuña's description of his journey down the Amazon River in 1639. Acuña was a Jesuit priest attached to the Jesuit College at Cuence, Peru, who was ordered to accompany the Portuguese General Texeira on his exploratory journey of the Amazon. Acuña was expressly ordered to observe and note the geography of the regipon and the various peoples encountered in order to prepare an accurate description of the Amazon region for the King of Spain. The cultural descriptions presented are generally very good; although Acuña was very naive in crediting native accounts of other groups, he displays little of the extreme bias so common in the reports of most European travelers of this period. Only the section describing an enclave of Tupinamba found on an island in the Amazon has been processed for the files.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- 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.
- Traveler
- 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
- EJ ; 1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- January 16, 1639 - December 12, 1639
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1639
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Amazon River, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cristóbal de Cristóbal de
- This document consists of excerpts
- Spanish original, Madrid, 1641, pub. under title: [Nuevo descubrimiento del gran rio de las Amazonas]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02009583
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians