Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.