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The Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta: an outline of their traditional economic organization and interrelation with the national economy
Antropológica / Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle • 40 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 25-55
By: Heinen, H. Dieter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article addresses a wide array of topics related to the economic organization of the Warao and its change over time. These include a history of contacts with criollos and missionaries, a brief description of the traditional Warao economy, and the introduction of wage labor and concomitant effects on the traditional patterns. Particularly noted are the roles of criollo middlemen and government programs in shaping the direction of Warao economic activity. The author is particularly concerned with understanding how to circumvent the middlemen exploiting the Warao.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Research and development
- 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
- Richard A. Wagner ; John Beierle ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- 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
- H. Deiter Heinen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65004908
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Warao Indians