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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1966
- Field Date
- 1947-1950
- Coverage Date
- 1920-1950
- Coverage Place
- Llanos region, Apure, Venezuela
- Notes
- Henry Le Besnerais
- Translation of: Contribution a l'Étude des Indiens yaruro et Otomaco (Venezuela). Translated for the HRAF files by Priscilla Reynolds
- LCSH
- Yaruro Indians