Book

Family and social life of the Nambikwara Indians

Société des Américanistes • Paris • Published In 1948 • Pages:

By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Sittler, Eileen.

Abstract

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.

HRAF PubDate

2010

Region

South America

Sub Region

Amazon and Orinoco

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Ethnologist-5

Analyst

Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958

Coverage Date

1907-1939

Coverage Place

Mato Grosso state, Brazil

Notes

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Translation of: [La vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara]

Translated for the HRAF files by Eileen Sittler in1958

LCSH

Nambicuara Indians