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Ritual of a Bororo funeral
Natural history • 72 (1) • Published In 1963 • Pages: 38-49
By: Kozák, Vladimír.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a popularized account of Bororo death practices taken from the onset of death to the final deposition of the cleaned bones in their permanent grave. The author describes in some detail the various ceremonial dances and rituals associated with Bororo death customs, and illustrates many of these aspects with excellent photographs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Death
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bororo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Technical Personnel
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Vladimír Kozák
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bororo Indians