essay
The Mundurucu
Handbook of South American Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward • (143) • Published In 1948 • Pages: 271-282
By: Horton, Donald.
Abstract
This article from the Handbook of South American Indians is a summary based on several primary sources and supplemented with data from Dr. Curt Nimuendajú, who was personally familiar with the Mundurucu and pertinent literary sources unavailable to the author. Some of the original sources have been translated and processed for the file, and a few discrepancies between the HRAF translation and that of Horton have been noted by the analyst on the pages where they appear. The list of sources on page 282 refers to a complete bibliography for the volume which appears on pages 903-986 of the original but has not been processed for the files. The author treats briefly the following subjects and gives notes on a few others: territory, population, history, subsistence, settlements, clothing and adornment, manufactures, social and military organization, warfare, lifee cycle, religious ceremonies, shamanism, and mythology.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- George R. Bedell ; 1958
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- eighteenth century - 1930s
- Coverage Place
- Tapajoz (Tapajós) River area, State of Para, Brazil
- Notes
- By Donald Horton
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 46026504
- LCSH
- Munduruku Indians