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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Whitten, Norman E.
Whitten, Dorothea S., 1930-
Title:
The structure of kinship and marriage among the Canelos
Quichua of east-central Ecuador
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Marriage practices in lowland South America, edited by
Kenneth M. Kensinger
Published By: Original publisher
Marriage practices in lowland South America, edited by
Kenneth M. Kensinger
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1984. 194-220,
265-283 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and Dorothea S. Whitten
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.
Canelos Quichua (SD18)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Kindreds and ramages (612);
Household (592);
a602;
Kinship terminology (601);
Marriage (580);
Shamans and psychotherapists (756);
Burial practices and funerals (764);
Religious beliefs (770);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed study of kinship structure and marriaage
among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador. For the Canelos Quichua, marriage
consists of a process of spouse acquisition (for a man, [n]huarmiyuj[/n], or the
'possession of a woman'; for a woman, [n]cariyuj[/n], 'possession of a man'), the entire
process which takes about three years to accomplish. During this period the authors
describe how segments of maximal [n]ayllus[/n] are linked, residence shifts take place,
territoriality somewhat redefined, fictive kinship ([i]gumba[/i] relations established, and
a micro-universe [n]huasi[/n] or household, founded. All of these events take place within
the constraints of the kin class system and the system of shamanism (p. 196).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
3
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.
sd18-003
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p.265-283)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1968-1976
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
Ethnologists-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle; 2009
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1968-1979
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Pastaza province, Ecuador
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Canelo Indians
