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The Tapirapé: a Tupí tribe of central Brazil
Revista do Arquivo Municipal • São Paulo • Published In 1970 • Pages: 183
By: Baldus, Herbert, Brunel, Ariane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is compiled from a number of issues of the Revisto do Arquivo Municipal. The author, an ethnologist, deals with various aspects of Tapirapé culture including diet, dress, ornamentation and body designs, village size and settlement pattern, economic activities, ethnozoology, contacts with other tribes and with Europeans, culture history and change, and child rearing. The distributions of certain traits are traced and the author makes frequent reference to the literature on Tapirapé and neighboring groups. No information is included on social relationships, kinship, political organization and religious beliefs. The data on economic activities is extremely limited. The account is based on fieldwork undertaken in 1935 and 1947.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Personal grooming
- Body alterations
- Ornament
- Food quest
- Weapons
- Tillage
- Fauna
- Diet
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tapirapé
- 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
- Eastern South America
- 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.
- 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
- Betty Potash; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935, 1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tapirapé river area, far northeastern Mato Grosso state, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Herbert Baldus
- Translation of: [Os Tapirapé, tribo tupí no Brasil central]
- The original Portuguese text is included in this database but it is not indexed for subjects
- Translated from the Portuguese for the HRAF files by Ariane Brunel in 1960
- The foreign text has been repaginated consecutively
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tapirapé Indians