Book
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: a sense of space
University of Texas Press • Austin • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Chernela, Janet Marion.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a study of the Wanano Indians, a Native American society located in the Uaupés River Basin in the northwest Amazon of Brazil. This group is characterized by a distinct language, name, ancestral history, rigidly bounded descent groups, and ascribed social statuses. In Wanano terms these amount to vertical and horizontal 'placements', and it is in this latter aspect -- the system of placement or rank -- upon which this book focuses (p. 1). In addition to the author's two theoretical models by means of which she attempts to explain ranked society, this document contains an abundance of data on the political significance of intergroup marriage, European-Indian contacts, the effects of missionization on Wanano society, social organization, kinship, songs, ecology, the economy, and inter-sib conflicts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Linguistic identification
- Real property
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- 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
- 1978-ca.1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1616-ca.1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wanano Indians; Yapima village, Uaupés River Basin, northwest Amazon, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Janet M. Chernela
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92004734
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tukano Indians