Contributions to the ethnography of Brazil
book chapter 1891 • Ehrenreich, Paul & Hicock, Shelton

Karajá • South America > Eastern South America
This work focusses on ethnohistory and material culture. Topics covered in greatest detail are masked dances, with particular reference to the costumes, and mythology, with translations of a number of fairly long legends. Weapons and feather ornament...

The sociology of the Waica
Book 1958 • Schuster, Meinhard & Hicock, Shelton

Yanoama • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This study, based on the author's field experience, discusses antagonistic and friendly inter-community relationships, as well as social groups within the village community. The latter are observed during a gift-giving ceremony, family groups during ...

The social and political organization of the Warao
article 1958 • Wilbert, Johannes & Hicock, Shelton

Warao • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Applying the functional-structure approach, Wilbert describes the historical development of the culture and society of the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta from pre-Columbian times until the mid-1950s. The author does not give a detailed explanatio...

The succession of the chiefs among the Terena
article 1944 • Baldus, Herbert,1899-1970 & Hicock, Shelton

Terena • South America > Southern South America
This is a study of the succession to chieftainship of the Terena living near Miranda in the southern part of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The field work was undertaken by the author in February 1934, with the assistance of a native informant, ...