book chapter
Through the wilderness of Brazil by horse, canoe and float
American Tract Society • New York • Published In 1909 • Pages:
By: Cook, William Azel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account by a protestant missionary contains many interesting observations on a broad range of topics. These include topography, flora and fauna, settlement patterns, subsistence activities, especially hunting and fishing, food and eating patterns, and the use of tobacco, many aspects of material culture from clothing and ornamentation to industrial arts and dwellings, music, sexual division of labor, the status of women, and so forth. Much reference is made to 'the great hut' which is the focal point of male social life, and to the moiety system in the villages. There is also a fairly extensive discussion of religious myth and ritual with particular reference to soul beliefs, death, and funeral ceremonies. Most of Cook's data seems to have been obtained in one large village which he calls 'Tá Dáre Mano Páro,' located at the confluence of the Pogúbu and the Rio Vermelho. He also visited for some days the village of 'Kogi au Paro' some twenty miles away along the Pogúbu river. A number of smaller Bororo settlements were seen but not studied.
- 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
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1966-1967
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1901
- 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)
- Tá Dáre Mano Páro and Kogi au Paro villages, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William Azel Cook
- The description of the 'Mano race' on pp. 382-83 has been indexed for Athletic Sports (526), but there are many similarities with the funeral dance of the MARID'DO described in 1: Lévi-Strauss (pp. 22-24), which has been indexed for categories Burial Practices and Funerals (764) and Dance (535), and the two descriptions should be compared.
- Only pages 351-426 and 4 accompanying plates are included
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bororo Indians