essay
Tupinambá chiefdoms?
Chiefdoms and chieftaincy in the Americas • Gainesville, Florida • Published In 1998 • Pages: 138-149
By: Sturtevant, William C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sturtevant questions whether the Tupinambá were a chiefdom. He reviews the criteria for chiefdoms and based on the historical data, he concludes no.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Territorial hierarchy
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1700
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- William C. Sturtevant
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98008522
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tupinamba Indians