Ethnology of Easter Island
Book 1940 Métraux, Alfred

Rapa NuiOceania > Polynesia
Compiled by a member of a 1934-35 Franco-Belgian expedition, this monograph presents both original fieldwork and data from existing sources. Themes include the history, geography, material cul...

Easter Island
Book 1945 Métraux, Alfred

Rapa NuiOceania > Polynesia
This article on the history of Easter Island offers a critique of various theories about the stonework, statues and the design-covered tablets interpreted as hieroglyphic script. Incorporating...

The Jivaro
1948 Métraux, Alfred

JivaroSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
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Tribes of the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes
essay 1948 Métraux, Alfred

ChiriguanoSouth America > Southern South America
This source discusses the Chiriguano (including the Chané) along with a number of other peoples occupying the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes. In addition to a general culture history of ...

Ethnography of the Chaco
essay 1946 Métraux, Alfred

AbipónSouth America > Southern South America
This this document, the Handbook of South American Indians, is a brief summary of the history of the Abipon, their relations with the Spanish and aboriginal groups, and of missionary activity ...

Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina)
Book 1939 Métraux, Alfred

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
Métraux took down these tales and myths during an interval in his field trip to study the Toba and Pilaga. His interviews were short and casual, and mainly limited to two informants. He had fr...

Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco
article 1943 Métraux, Alfred

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
This article deals with the high rate of suicide among the Matako Indians in the missions. After giving ten case histories the author discusses the motives involved, the relation of suicide at...

The Guarani
essay 1948 Métraux, Alfred

GuaraníSouth America > Eastern South America
This article is a summary of Guarani ethnography from the 16th century to the early twentieth century, as obtained mostly from written historical documents. In the opening pages of the article...

The Botocudo
essay 1946 Métraux, Alfred

BotocudoSouth America > Eastern South America
This encyclopedic work covers what little was known about the Botocudo....

The material culture of the Tupi-Guarani tribes
book chapter 1928 Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This book is an excellent source on Tupinamba material culture. Métraux bases his work on material gathered from existing sources and on data obtained by personally examining objects of Tupina...

The Tupinamba
book chapter 1948 Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This is a secondary source summarizing Tupinamba culture. All of the sources which Métraux uses have been processed for the files. Several of the illustrations referred to in this text have be...

Affiliations through work in Marbial, Haiti
article 1952 Métraux, Alfred

HaitiansMiddle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This paper discusses the work relationships deriving from agriculture as one aspect of interpersonal relationships among the people of Marbial in southern Haiti. It shows that the basic econom...

Contribution to Andean folklore
article 1934 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

AymaraSouth America > Central Andes
This monograph is on religious practices and beliefs of the Aymara in the province of Carangas, Bolivia. After four centuries of European-Indian contacts the Aymara showed Christian influence,...

Studies on the culture of the Chiriguano Indians
Book 1930 Métraux, Alfred & Winchell, J.

ChiriguanoSouth America > Southern South America
This descriptive and historical analysis of Chiriguano technology and material culture attempts to reconstruct the origins, derivations and cross-cultural relationships of the Chiriguano and t...

Contribution to the ethnography and linguistics of the Uro Indians of Ancoaqui (Bolivia)
article 1935 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

Uru-ChipayaSouth America > Central Andes
This source presents a succinct account of the material culture, social organization and religion of an Uru community of Ancoaqui (Iru-Itu) on the banks of the Desaguadero River, some twenty-f...

The Uru-Chipaya Indians of Carangas
article 1935 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

Uru-ChipayaSouth America > Central Andes
This is a basic source on the ethnography and language of the Chipaya segment of the Uru-Chipaya ethnolinguistic group of Atahuallpa (formerly Carangas) province, Oruro department. The monogra...

Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco
article 1944 Métraux, Alfred & Muirden, Sydney

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
Métraux visited the Mataco in 1939 with the intention of doing a full-scale study, but was prevented by sickness from doing so. This article is a publication of some of his field notes from th...

Historical migrations of the Tupi Guarani
book chapter 1927 Métraux, Alfred & Coughlin, Margaret

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This document consists of a detailed analysis of the migratory movements of the various Tupí-Guaraní tribes from the time of their first contacts with Europeans in the sixteenth century to the...

Making a living in the Marbial Valley, Haiti
Book 1951 Métraux, Alfred et al.

HaitiansMiddle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This document deals with the economic life of Haitian peasants in Marbial province as of the 1951. It shows that Haitian economy depends almost entirely upon the hard toil of rural people. Whe...

The peculiarities of French Antarctica, otherwise called (French) America
book chapter 1878 Thevet, André & Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
André Thevet visited Brazil in 1555 with the exception of Villegaignon. He gathered, during his short stay at the bay or Rio Janeiro, more information on the Tupinamba than any traveler or eve...

The universal cosmography
book chapter 1575 Thevet, André & Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
In this excerpt, the accounts are more detailed than those which appear in 2:Thevet (1878)....

Journey made in the north of Brazil during the years 1613 and 1614
book chapter 1864 Yves, d'évreux & Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This book, written by a French missionary in Brazil, contains invaluable information on the psychology of the Tupinamba. The author tells a great many anecdotes and reproduces conversations wi...

The Goajiro
essay 1948 Armstrong, John M. & Métraux, Alfred

GoajiroSouth America > Northwestern South America
This study is a summary article by two ethnologists, based on previously published materials. It contains information on location and history, subsistence, houses and villages, dress and adorn...

History of a voyage to Brazil
book chapter 1880 Léry, Jean de & Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
The original edition appeared in 1576. Léry went to Rio de Janeiro in 1557 with a Protestant group to establish a French settlement in Brazil. His work, written many years after his return, is...

Communication on the very many natural things which dwell in the province of St. Vincent (now São Paulo) systematically described
book chapter 1812 Anchieta, José de & Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
Short treatise in Latin on the natural history of the present state of S. Paulo, containing a few, but interesting, anthropological data....