Book
Oko Warao: marshland people of the Orinoco Delta
Lit • Münster • Published In 1988 • Pages: 131
By: Heinen, H. Dieter.
Abstract
'Oko Warao' consists of a series of narratives dealing with life in the lower Orinoco Delta of Venezuela from approximately the early 1900s to the 1980s. These narratives were told to the author (and recorded on tape) by elders from the Winikina and Wayo areas of the traditional Warao heartland. Each of the narratives discusses a topic of special interest to the informant. These stories were supplemented by footnotes and background information supplied by the editor to fill gaps that the narrator himself found too self-evident to explain. Topics discussed in this work describe the annual cycle, foods, the gathering and preparation of sago, relations with the Criollos (Venezuelans of white, Indian and black parentage), kinship and marriage, shamanism and medicine, the KANOBO or ancestor spirits, socio-cultural change and acculturation, Warao-missionary relations, and education.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- early 1900s-1980s
- Coverage Place
- Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
- Notes
- Heinz Dieter Heinen
- Maps on lining papers
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)
- Maps on lining papers not included
- LCCN
- 90147175
- LCSH
- Warao Indians