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The social and political organization of the Warao
Kölner zeitschrift für sozialpsychologie • 10 • Published In 1958 • Pages: HRAF MS: 28 [Original: 272-291 ]
By: Wilbert, Johannes, Hicock, Shelton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Applying the functional-structure approach, Wilbert describes the historical development of the culture and society of the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta from pre-Columbian times until the mid-1950s. The author does not give a detailed explanation of the basis for historical reconstruction. A complete description of Warao kinship terminology and kin relationships is provided.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Nuclear family
- Polygamy
- Extended families
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- General character of religion
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Warao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Sigrid Khera ; 1967
- 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)
- Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- Johannes Wilbert
- Translation of: Die soziale und politische organisation der Warrau
- The original German text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Shelton Hicock
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Warao Indians