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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Nordenskiöld, Erland, freiherre,
1877-1932
Title:
Miracle men and diviners among the Cuna Indians
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Revista del Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán -- Vol. 2
Published By: Original publisher
Revista del Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán -- Vol. 2
Tucumán: [s.n.]. 1931. HRAF MS: 1-15 p. [Original: 459-469
p.] ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Erland Nordenskiöld
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1999. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Kuna (SB05)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Magicians and diviners (791);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a short and excellent summary of the activities and
prerogatives of the various types of Cuna medicine men. The article was published shortly
after Nordenskiöld's death and somewhat before his notes were collected and published (see
1:Nordenskiöld). Much of the material is given in the larger source but this short article
is the best analysis of Cuna medicine men.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
9
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
sb05-009
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from French
Note:
Translation of: Faiseurs et Voyants chez les Indiens
Cuna|The original French text is not included Translated for the HRAF files by Eileen
Sittler
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1927
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Leila Small ; 1950-1956
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1927
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
San Blas, Panama
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cuna Indians