Book
Oko Warao: marshland people of the Orinoco Delta
Lit • Münster • Published In 1988 • Pages: 131
By: Heinen, H. Dieter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Collecting
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Ethnic stratification
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Eschatology
- Sacred objects and places
- Missions
- Ethnosociology
- 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 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 ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- early 1900s-1980s
- 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
- Heinz Dieter Heinen
- Maps on lining papers
- Maps on lining papers not included
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90147175
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Warao Indians