Book
Family and social life of the Nambikwara Indians
Société des Américanistes • Paris • Published In 1948 • Pages:
By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Sittler, Eileen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Except for a slighting of material culture, this is a well-rounded source on the culture of the Nambicuara (spelled Nambikwara by the author), concentrating on the spheres of interest noted in the title, but also containing much material on linguistics, group psychology, and inter-group relations. The culture and individual psychology of the Nambicuara are seen as dualistic in nature, reflecting the dualism of their mode of life, which is nomadic and scattered in the dry season, and communal in the rainy season. The author sees relationships with the Andean and Sub-Andean cultures of the West and North, and also with the Tupinamba of the Brazilian coast. This monograph was presented to the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris as a complementary thesis, and was also published in the Journal de la Société des Americanistes de Paris, N.S., t.XXXVII, pp. 1-131, 1948. Bibliographical information is contained in footnotes to each page. At that time he was Maere de Conférences des Facultés at the University of Paris.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Ethos
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Annual cycle
- Tillage
- Sleeping
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Regulation of marriage
- Personal names
- Burial practices and funerals
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Population
- Household
- Ingroup antagonisms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nambicuara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1907-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mato Grosso state, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Translation of: [La vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Eileen Sittler in 1958
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nambicuara Indians