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Raids among the Waica
Boletín Indigenista Venezolano • 7 • Published In 1959 • Pages: 151-167 [HRAF ms.: 1-18 ]
By: Barker, James, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article by a Protestant missionary gives an excellent description of warfare activities between Yanoama (Waica) groups, which the author witnessed during the 1950s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- 1951-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Waica, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- James Barker
- Translation of: Las incursiones entre los Guaika. The original Spanish text is not included
- Translated from the Spanish for the Human Relations Area Files by Sidney Muirden
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yanoama Indians