Book
The Canela (Eastern Timbira), I: an ethnographic introduction
Smithsonian Institution Press • (33) • Published In 1990 • Pages: xix, 487
By: Crocker, William H. (William Henry).
Abstract
This monograph is about the Canela Indians of the municipio of Barra do Corda, Brazil with comparison to the neighboring Apanyekra Canela. , who are culturally very similar and are used in this study for comparisons. The work is divided into five parts. Part I describes the field situation and the methods used. Part II provides ethnographic background materials ranging from ecology and acculturation, through the various annual cycles, to material and recreative culture. Part III presents socialization, psychological orientations, and the social, political, and terminological (kinship) systems. Part IV is devoted to religion taken in its broadest sense and includes the festival system, individual rites of passage, mythical history and cosmology, as well as information of shamanism, ethnobiology, pollution, and medicine. Part V is a presentation and analysis of the Canela's special kind of dualism. The epilogue brings the reader up to 1989 in certain topics, and the appendices provide information on the Canela research collections (material artifacts, photographs, films, magnetic tapes, manuscripts) at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (p. ii).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Eastern South America
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field Date
- 1957-1979
- Coverage Date
- 1957-1979
- Coverage Place
- central Maranhão, Brazil
- Notes
- William H. Crocker
- Stamped on t.p.: Issued Dec. 13, 1990
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-384)
- LCCN
- 89600303
- LCSH
- Canella Indians