essay
The Araucanians
Smithsonian Institution • 2 (143) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 687-760 , 4 plates
By: Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, taken from The Handbook of South American Indians, is the basic synthetic document on the Araucanians. The article covers the tribal divisions, history, religion, social organization, economic life, and life cycle of the group. A goodly amount of space is devoted to diversity among the tribal subdivisions, and cultural borrowing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- External relations
- Tribe and nation
- Marriage
- War
- Reproduction
- Burial practices and funerals
- Religious beliefs
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mapuche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James Leary ; 1957
- 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
- 1450-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- middle Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- John M. Cooper
- For the bibliography see Vol. 2 of the Handbook of South American Indians, since the material was not included for the files.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mapuche Indians