Book
The Warao of the Amacuro Delta
Universidad Central de Venezuela • Caracas • Published In 1956 • Pages:
By: Hill, George W., Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report about a field expedition to the Warao Indians by a team of eighteen persons -- students as well as qualified researchers -- from various departments of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Sociology and Anthropology, Medicine, Education, Geography and Agronomy, Economy). The stay in the field lasted about two weeks during which time the members of the medical and physical anthropological team collected a good amount of somatological and physiological data (anthropometry and blood-examinations). Ethnographers, sociologists, and psychologists who visited several Warao settlements with the aid of an interpreter well known to the Indians were able to collect definite data on settlement patterns and clothing. Otherwise, they could only outline plans and problems for further ethnographical and psychological research among these Indians.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Maps
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Anthropometry
- Morbidity
- Dwellings
- Outbuildings
- Daily routine
- Extended families
- Territorial hierarchy
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Ethnographer
- Sociologist
- 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 ; 1967-1969
- 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)
- Amacuro Delta, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- George W. Hill
- Introduction / George W. Hill -- Ethnography / Roberto Lizarralde, James Silverberg, and José A. Silva Michelena -- Biotypology and social medicine / Adelaida G. de Díaz Ungría, Sebastián Núñez Mier y Terán, José Díaz Ungría
- Translation of: Los Guararo del Delta Amacuro
- The original Spanish text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Warao Indians