Book
From the Milk River: spatial and temporal processes in northwest Amazonia
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge • Published In 1979 • Pages: xx, 302
By: Hugh-Jones, Christine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Barasana Indians living along the Pirá;-paraná river in the Vaupés region of the Colombian northwest Amazon. The material was gathered by the author during her fieldwork among the Barasana from September 1968 to December 1970. After a presentation of some basic ethnographic information on the Barasana (e.g., social structure family and patrilineal groups, religious and secular specialists, kinship and marriage, life cycle, etc.), Hugh-Jones attempts to demonstrate how these cultural aspects of Tucano society '…are ideologically integrated just as they are also inextricably bound together in concrete behavior' (p. 2). In order to accomplish this the author established a number of theoretical models based on analogy and metaphorical usage, connecting cultural data to religious symbolism, myth, and cosmology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mode of marriage
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Organized ceremonial
- Menstruation
- Puberty and initiation
- 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
- Book
- 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 ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- September 1968-December 1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Barasana Indians; Vaupés region, Colombian northwest Amazon
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christine Hugh-Jones
- Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1977
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78073126
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tukano Indians