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).
Subjects
Reviews and critiques
Life history materials
Age stratification
Moieties
Acculturation and culture contact
Organized ceremonial
Annual cycle
Ordering of time
Music
Dance
Sex training
Kinship terminology
Semantics
Shamans and psychotherapists
culture
Canela
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