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.
Subjects
Identification
Hunting and trapping
Tillage
Normal garb
Ornament
Clans
Moieties
Military organization
Warfare
Shamans and psychotherapists
Mythology
Organized ceremonial
culture
Mundurucu
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