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Tappers and sappers: rubber, gold and money among the Mundurucú
American ethnologist • 16 (1) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 100-116
By: Burkhalter, S. Brian, Murphy, Robert Francis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents a description and analysis of the social and cultural changes that have taken place among the Mundurucu Indians of the upper Tapajós river, Brazil from the time of Robert Murphy's field work in 1952-1953 to that of S. Brian Burkhalter's in 1979-1980. During this period a transition took place in the Mundurucu trade economy in wild rubber, exchanged through a barter-trade system, to the digging of placer gold within the context of a cash economy. This change '…has seen a further erosion of institutions based on communality, commensality, and cooperation, and a growing prevalence of monetary objectification of persons and their labors' (p. 100).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Forest products
- Mining and quarrying
- Gift giving
- Buying and selling
- Medium of exchange
- External trade
- Retail marketing
- Credit
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1953, 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Tapajós River area, State of Para, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- S. Brian Burkhalter and Robert F. Murphy
- Includes bibliographical references (p.115-116)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Munduruku Indians