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A Tapirapé comes of age
Revista do Museu Nacional • 1 • Published In 1945 • Pages: 16
By: Wagley, Charles, Brunel, Ariane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article offers a brief description of puberty rites among the Tapirapé. Although the details of the ceremony itself are not discussed, considerable information is given on the costumes worn by the youths, the preparation for the ceremony, and the feelings about this rite. The author, an ethnologist, did fieldwork among the Tapirapé.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- Personal grooming
- Special garments
- Animal by-products
- 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
- 1939-1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- mouth and north of of the Tapirapé river, far northeastern Mato Grosso and far southeastern Pará states, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Wagley
- Translation of: [Um Tapirapé atinge a Maioridade]
- The original Portuguese text is available only in the microfiche collection
- Translated from the Portuguese for the HRAF files by Ariane Brunel in 1960
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tapirapé Indians