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Contribution to the study of the Yaruro and Otomac Indians (Venezuela)
Bulletin de la Société Suisse des Américanistes • (24, 1962) • Published In 1966 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-25 [original: 7-25 ]
By: Le Besnerais, Henri, Reynolds, Priscilla.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Although the first two parts of this source, entitled respectively 'Notes on the origins, way of life, and history of the Yaruro' (dealing primarily with inferences made by other authors regarding Yaruro subsistence and agriculture), and 'Notes on the Otomaco' (which presents comparative data on several minor aspects of Yaruro and Otomac ethnology), only give the most general type of information pertinent to the Yaruro file, part three of the source compensates for these deficiencies by presenting a number of excellent tables indicating names and locations of various settlements, house types, names of the chiefs of the settlements, and numerous miscellaneous notes on the various sites, while section four of the source presents an exhaustive bibliography on the Yaruro. The rather cryptic footnotes appearing in the text, as for example, 'see 'infra' IV List...36', refers the reader to section four of the text (pp. 15-25), containing the bibliographical citations mentioned above.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Prehistory
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Tillage
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Personal names
- Community heads
- Territorial hierarchy
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnozoology
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1966
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Llanos region, Apure, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry Le Besnerais
- Translation of: Contribution a l'Étude des Indiens yaruro et Otomaco (Venezuela).
- Translated for the HRAF files by Priscilla Reynolds
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yaruro Indians