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Nambiquara leadership
American ethnologist • 8 (4) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 686-708
By: Price, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on leadership among the Nambiquara of Brazil. It tries to overcome preconceptions of the Nambiquara leadership as an egalitarian system grounded in a social structure that emphasizes the ties between siblings. It argues that Nambiquara men do not assume leadership seeking compensation in the form of extra wives as claimed by previous ethnographers. Their main motive was rather ensuring the well-being of their kin by taking additional responsibilities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community heads
- Community structure
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Community councils
- Settlement patterns
- Ethos
- Cultural identity and pride
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Social relationships and groups
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- Inheritance
- Judicial authority
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Inter-community relations
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mato Grosso and southern Rondonia states, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Price
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 705-707)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nambicuara Indians