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Culture Summary: Karajá
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2018 • Pages:
By: Taveira, Edna Luísa de Melo, Fénelon Costa, Maria Heloísa, Schaper, William R. J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Karajá peoples. Information is presented on major aspects of Karajá culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Karajá
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1725-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- middle Rio Araguaia basin, central Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edna Luísa de Melo Taveira and Maria Heloísa Fénelon Costa (Translated by William R. J. Schaper)
- This culture summary is based on the article "Karajá" by Edna Luísa de Melo Taveira and Maria Heloísa Fénelon Costa (translated by William R. J. Schaper), in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 7, South America, Johannes Wilbert, ed. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co. 1994. The text was revised and the population figures were updated by Leon G. Doyon in April-May, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caraja Indians