Bakairi : SP07.
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2004- |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafWorldCultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=SP07 |
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| Included Work | Abreu, João Capistrano de, 1853-1927 Bacairi. |
| Included Work | Altenfelder Silva, F. (Fernando). Estada de Uanki entre os Bakairi. English. |
| Included Work | Oberg, Kalervo, 1901-1973. Bacairi. |
| Included Work | Picchi, Debra. Bakairí Indians of Brazil. |
| Included Work | Schmidt, Max, 1874-1950. Bakairí. English. |
| Included Work | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929. Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens. Selections. English. |
| Included Work | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929. Durch Central-Brasilien. Selections. English. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures. South America EHRAF world cultures. South America. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The Bacairi = Os Basaeris / Joāo Capistrano de Abreu -- The Uanki State among the Bacairi = O Estada de Uanki entre os Bakairí / F. Altenfelder Silva -- The Bacairi / Kalervo Oberg -- Cultural summary: Bakairi / Debra S. Picchi and Ian Skoggard -- The Bakairí Indians of Brazil / Debra Picchi -- The Bacairi = Los Bakairí / Max Schmidt, translated from the Spanish by A. Brunel -- Among the primitive peoples of Central Brazil, a travel account and the results of the Second Xingu Expedition 1887-1888 = Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens, Reiseschilderung und Ergebnisse der Zweiten Schingú-Expedition 1887-1888 / Karl von den Steinen, translated from the German by Frieda Schütze -- Through central Brazil, expedition for the exploration of the Xingu in the year 1884 = Durch Central-Brasilien, Expedition zur Erforschung des Schingú im Jahre 1884 / Karl von den Steinen, translated from the German by Frieda Schütze. |
| Abstract | This collection of 7 documents is about the Bakairi, a Carib-speaking group living on Upper Xingu River in the state of Mato Grosso in south central Brazil. The German explorer Steinen wrote the earliest accounts of the Bakairi based on his one-month stay with them during his 1884 trip down the Xingu river and his travels among the tribes located along the Kulisehu River, in the Upper Xingu area in 1887. Abreu wrote an early account of Bakairi language, mythology, and religion based on 1892 Portuguese texts. Schmidt includes the history of the Bakairi subsequent to Steinen's expedition and up to the year 1927. During this period of time, numerous socio-political and cultural changes took place among the Bacairi. He describes three different Bacairi groups: the Eastern, Western, and Xinguanos. Altenfelder Silva describes the culture of the Bakairi Indians of Mato Grosso circa 1940 including their technology, kinship terminology, pantheon, ceremonies, shamanism, and the series of ritualistic seclusions, or uanki, that occur at intervals during the life cycle. Oberg's account is based on his fieldwork among the people living on the Government Indian Post on the Rio Paranatinga during June 1947. It should be noted that the information presented in this source, obtained primarily from informants, relates to an earlier period in Bacairi history (ca. 1907) when they lived on the Rio Kuliseu. Data presented pertain to settlement patterns, subsistence activities, house types, furniture, language, culture history and early European contacts, population, dress and personal ornaments, organization of labor, social organization, the life cycle, puberty rites, marriage, burial, shamanism, games, ceremonialism and mythology. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Feb. 28, 2008). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2004 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Bacairi. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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