The Canela (Eastern Timbira) : 1. An ethnographic introduction.
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Washington :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
1990.
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| Series: | Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.