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Ecological determinants of chieftainship among the Yaruro Indians of Venezuela
Akten des 34. Internationalen Amerikanistenkongresses • Wien • Published In 1962 • Pages: 597-608
By: Leeds, Anthony.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author presents the hypothesis that the relatively weak position of chieftainship among the Yaruro, and by extension among the South American Indians, as a whole, is because of their ecology. He presents a model of an ecological type that he believes sets limits withn which any sort of chiefly function will operate. Furthermore, this model should be applicable to all cultures having the same basic technology, habitat characteristics and similar types of food surplus.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Annual cycle
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Diet
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pumé
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- essay
- 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 ; 1964-65
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cinaruco river region and Palmarito de Guachara, eastern Apure, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- Anthony Leeds
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 608)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yaruro Indians