The Canela (Eastern Timbira) : 1. An ethnographic introduction. - Crocker, William Henry; Wagley, Charles (Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990)
The Field Situation -- General Characteristics -- Early Acceptance Experiences -- Problem-solving in the Field -- Field Equipment -- Learning the Canela Language -- Diaries and Tapes -- Special Research Assistants -- Special Friends in the State of Maranhao -- Ethnographic Background -- Gê Language Family, Its Populations and Ecology -- Diachronic Context -- Annual Cycles -- Life Cycles -- Daily Cycle -- "Recreation" -- Artifacts -- Social Organisation -- Socialization and Related Adult Activities -- Psychological "Polarities", Values and Behavioral Orientations -- Socioceremonial Units -- Political System -- Terminological Relationship Systems -- Marriage -- Ceremonial and Belief Systems -- Festival System -- Individual Rites -- Oral History and Cosmology -- Shamanism, Pollution and Medicine -- Canela Structural Patterns -- Structures in some Sociocultural Sectors -- Key Expressions in Other Contexts.
Notes. Bibliogr. Append. Glossaire.