essay
The Mundurucu
Handbook of South American Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward • (143) • Published In 1948 • Pages: 271-282
By: Horton, Donald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article from the Handbook of South American Indians is a summary based on several primary sources and supplemented with data from Dr. Curt Nimuendajú, who was personally familiar with the Mundurucu and pertinent literary sources unavailable to the author. Some of the original sources have been translated and processed for the file, and a few discrepancies between the HRAF translation and that of Horton have been noted by the analyst on the pages where they appear. The list of sources on page 282 refers to a complete bibliography for the volume which appears on pages 903-986 of the original but has not been processed for the files. The author treats briefly the following subjects and gives notes on a few others: territory, population, history, subsistence, settlements, clothing and adornment, manufactures, social and military organization, warfare, lifee cycle, religious ceremonies, shamanism, and mythology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Clans
- Moieties
- Military organization
- Warfare
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Mythology
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mundurucu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- eighteenth century - 1930s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tapajoz (Tapajós) River area, State of Para, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Donald Horton
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46026504
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Munduruku Indians