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Tapirapé social and culture change, 1940-1953
Anais do XXXI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas • São Paulo • Published In 1955 • Pages: 99-106
By: Wagley, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wagley first studied this group during 1939-1940 and he revisited them for a short time in 1953. He found that the depopulation of the tribe had continued and that in 1953 there were only 51 individuals left - the rest having died or moved far away. There was a new settlement in Caraja territory and the Tapirapé were rapidly being acculturated, especially since the shamans, traditionally the conservative element in the culture, had all died and none had taken their place. Wagley concludes that their culture remained remarkably stable in the face of the violent disruption of the society, but has been modified by borrowing and by the loss of trait and pattern due to the reduction of the population and disorganization of the society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- History
- External relations
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- 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
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1953
- 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
- Charles Wagley
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tapirapé Indians