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Notes on the terms and the kinship system of the Tucano

Revista Colombiana de Antropología • 4 • Published In 1955 • Pages: HRAF MS: 1-57 [original: 121-164 ]

By: Fulop, Marcos, Bravo, Mary Louise.

Abstract

This article is an excellent study of Tucano kinship terminology and the extension and application of these kin terms to the various component sibs of the five major phratries. The data presented here were collected in the period from June 11 to Sept. 9, 1954, while the author resided in the hamlet of Guadalajara on the Paca River in the Comisaría Especial del Vaupés. As informant and interpreter, the author employed two brothers, Marcos and Manuel Sierra, respectively, both of whom were members of the patrilineal sib Urémiri Sáraro of the phratry Yepá Bajuári Majsá. Fulop was unable to visit personally the four other Tucano phratries -- Miriápura Diára Majsá, Nujkuá Diára Majsá, Miriápura Bajuári Majsá, and Emeko Bajuári Majsá --because of their great distance from his location at Guadalajara, therefore data pertinent to these kin groups are based on the information provided the author by Marcos Sierra.

HRAF PubDate

1998

Region

South America

Sub Region

Amazon and Orinoco

Document Type

article

Evaluation

Creator Type

Ethnologist

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

John Beierle ; 1969-1970

Field Date

1954

Coverage Date

1954

Coverage Place

Guadalajara hamlet; Paca River, Vaupés region, Colombia

Notes

Marcos Fulop

Translation of: Notas Sobre los Términos y el Sistema de Parentesco de los Tukano.

The original Spanish text is not included

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57)

Translated for the HRAF files by Mary Louise Bravo

LCCN

56028791

LCSH

Tucano Indians