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The Tapirapé: a Tupí tribe of central Brazil

Revista do Arquivo MunicipalSão Paulo • Published In 1970 • Pages: 183

By: Baldus, Herbert, Brunel, Ariane.

Abstract
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.
Subjects
History
Personal grooming
Body alterations
Ornament
Food quest
Weapons
Tillage
Fauna
Diet
culture
Tapirapé
HRAF PubDate
2010
Region
South America
Sub Region
Eastern South America
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Betty Potash; 1960
Field Date
1935, 1947
Coverage Date
1900-1935
Coverage Place
Tapirapé river area, far northeastern Mato Grosso state, Brazil
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
Includes bibliographical references
Translated from the Portuguese for the HRAF files by Ariane Brunel in 1960
The foreign text has been repaginated consecutively
LCSH
Tapirapé Indians