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Aspects of Tucano culture: mythology--part I

Revista Colombiana de Antropología • 5 • Published In 1956 • Pages: HRAF MS: 1-42 [original: 335-373 ]

By: Fulop, Marcos, Bravo, Mary Louise.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This is a collection of nine Tucano folk-tales and myths gathered by the author during the period June 11 - September 9, 1954, while he lived in residence in the village of Guadalajara on the Paca River (tributary of the Papuri River), in the Comisaría Especial del Vaupés. Two brothers and residents of the village, Marcos and Manuel Sierra, served as the author's informants and interpreters. Although these myths cover a wide range of subject matter, numbers eight and nine are especially interesting for the light they shed on native beliefs about the origins of manioc, tobacco and coca.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Literary texts

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Tukano

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1998

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.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 1969-1970

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1954

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1954

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Guadalajara hamlet; Paca River, Vaupés region, Colombia

NotesAdditional notes

Marcos Fulop

Translation of: Aspectos de la Cultura Tucana; Mitología--Parte. I

The original Spanish text is not included

Translated for the HRAF files by Mary Louise Bravo

Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

56028791

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Tucano Indians