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Tapirapé shamanism
Boletim do Museu Nacional, nova série, antropologia • (3) • Published In 1943 • Pages: 41-94 , plates
By: Wagley, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is based on fieldwork done in a Tapirapé village during 1939-1940. It includes a brief description of Tapirapé culture, as well as selections on the source of shamanistic power, sorcery, duties of the shaman, social position of the shaman, becoming a shaman, and the Thunder Ceremony which is an annual ceremony by the shamans to protect the village from the wrath of the Thunder god during the year.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Sorcery
- Organized ceremonial
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tampiitawa village, 40 miles north of the Tapirapé and 160 miles west of the Araguaia rivers, far northeastern Mato Grosso state, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Wagley
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tapirapé Indians