book chapter
The head-hunters of Western Amazonas: the life and culture of the Jibaro Indians of eastern Ecuador and Peru
Centraltryckeriet • Helsingfors • Published In 1935 • Pages: xvi, 598
By: Karsten, Rafael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Karsten spent three full years among the Jivaro (between 1917 and 1928) and almost a complete summary of all he has published on the Jivaro to date is contained in this monograph He learned the native language passingly well according to his own statement and became quite intimate with many of the Indians He is very careful about including many details which other ethnographers have sometimes missed On the whole a very competent and thorough piece oc work … by far the best work on the Jivaro.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Pharmaceuticals
- Literary texts
- Nuptials
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Purification and atonement
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jivaro
- 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 chapter
- 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
- CSF ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1916-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1916-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru and Equador
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Rafael Karsten
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- ac 35002842
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians/Jivaran languages