book chapter
Contributions to the ethnography of Brazil
Veröffentlichungen aus dem Königlichen Museum für Völkerkunde • 2 • Published In 1891 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-115 p, [original: 1-80 ]
By: Ehrenreich, Paul, Hicock, Shelton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work focusses on ethnohistory and material culture. Topics covered in greatest detail are masked dances, with particular reference to the costumes, and mythology, with translations of a number of fairly long legends. Weapons and feather ornaments are described in detail. Among the subjects given less coverage the most notable are: a short history of European contact; descriptions of the major subgroups; settlement patterns and village types; population; and subsistence patterns, including foods and food preparation. It is revealed that although hunting is relatively unimportant economically, animals and their symbolization play a significant role in Karajá social life and ideational systems.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Topography and geology
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Food quest
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Personal grooming
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- Utensils
- Boats
- Decorative art
- Representative art
- Dance
- Literary texts
- External relations
- Medical therapy
- Death
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Reproduction
- 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
- book chapter
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1966
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1888
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1888
- 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
- P. Ehrenreich
- Translation of: [Beiträge zur Völkerkunde Brasiliens]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Shelton Hicock
- Not processed for the Files: PArt 2, pages 49-74, Plates XIII-XV, and the explanations for these plates, all of which pertains to other cultures, and the index on pages 75-77
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caraja Indians