Book
Kinship system and social structure of the Bororo of Pobojari
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1974 • Pages:
By: Levak, Zarko David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation is a semantic analysis of Bororo kinship and social structure. From a detailed analysis of the kinship terminology, eight usage rules are deduced. An appendix reduces each kin type to its class foci by application of these rules. Originally intending to do a study of Bororo mythology and religious ideas, Levak found that without an understanding of the kinship system, nothing else made sense. The relations between mother and child, older and younger brother, and father and son are seen as 'models for the three kinds of relationships which pervade Bororo culture.' The opposition of culture and nature is examined as basic to the Bororo conception of the universe. The final chapter discusses how Bororo beliefs have affected their basic adaptation to their rapidly changing environment.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Social relationships and groups
- Marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Lineages
- Clans
- Moieties
- Mythology
- Ideas about nature and people
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bororo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- Martin Malone ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pobojari village, western Mato Grosso Province, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Zarko David Levak
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Yale University, 1971
- UM 73-29,618
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bororo Indians