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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Sittler, Eileen
Title:
Family and social life of the Nambikwara Indians
Published By: Original publisher
Paris: Société des Américanistes. 1948. HRAF ms: 1-200 p.
[Original: i, 131 p., 7 end plates] ill., maps
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Claude Lévi-Strauss
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2010. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Nambicuara (SP17)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Household (592);
Ethos (181);
Normal garb (291);
Ornament (301);
Annual cycle (221);
Tillage (241);
Sleeping (513);
Kinship terminology (601);
Kin relationships (602);
Regulation of marriage (582);
Personal names (551);
Burial practices and funerals (764);
Community structure (621);
Community heads (622);
Population (161);
Household (592);
Ingroup antagonisms (578);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Except for a slighting of material culture, this is a
well-rounded source on the culture of the Nambicuara (spelled Nambikwara by the author),
concentrating on the spheres of interest noted in the title, but also containing much
material on linguistics, group psychology, and inter-group relations. The culture and
individual psychology of the Nambicuara are seen as dualistic in nature, reflecting the
dualism of their mode of life, which is nomadic and scattered in the dry season, and
communal in the rainy season. The author sees relationships with the Andean and Sub-Andean
cultures of the West and North, and also with the Tupinamba of the Brazilian coast. This
monograph was presented to the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris as a
complementary thesis, and was also published in the Journal de la Société des Americanistes
de Paris, N.S., t.XXXVII, pp. 1-131, 1948. Bibliographical information is contained in
footnotes to each page. At that time he was Maere de Conférences des Facultés at the
University of Paris.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
1
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.
sp17-001
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from French
Note:
Translation of: [La vie familiale et sociale des
Indiens Nambikwara] Translated for the HRAF files by Eileen Sittler in1958
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1938-1939
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.
Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1907-1939
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Mato Grosso state, Brazil
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Nambicuara Indians
