essay
The Surara and Pakidai, two Yanoama tribes in northwest Brazil
Kommissionsverlag Cram, De Gruyter & Co. • 26 • Published In 1960 • Pages: 1-133 [HRAF ms.: vii, 281 ]
By: Becher, Hans, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography on material culture, religious activities, and political structure. Social organization is not discussed in detail. Becher provides the native terms for most culture elements under description. When discussing individual culture elements Becher points out their distribution in other parts of South America, and gives his own as well as other anthropologists' theories on the origin and migration of the particular element. Becher learned the languages of these two Yanoama tribes and he held a most sympathetic attitude toward the Indians and was fully accepted by them.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yanoama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- variable, but primarily Surara and Pakidai, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hans Becher
- Translation of: Die Surára and Pakidái, zwei Yanonámi-Stämme in Nordwestbrasilien. The original German text is not included
- Translated from the German for the Human Relations Area Files by Frieda Schütze
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yanoama Indians