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The Nambicuara
Smithsonian Institution • Washington • Published In 1948 • Pages: 361-369 , 2 end plates
By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lévi-Strauss' article is a brief summary of Nambicuara culture, covering subsistence, social organization, material culture, religion, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Food preparation
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Dwellings
- Population
- Linguistic identification
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Pharmaceuticals
- Kin relationships
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James 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
- For the bibliography, see Vol. 3 of the Handbook of South American Indians, since the material was not processed for the files
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nambicuara Indians