Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Mataco are Native Americans who live in the northern and central Gran Chaco from Bolivia to Argentina. This file consists of eight documents, two of which are translations from Spanish (Pelleschi and Métraux 1944) and one from French (Dijour). The works of Pelleschi, Métraux, and to some extent Karsten complement one another and provide an excellent background for a study of the traditional Mataco culture (relevant to the periods of the authors' fieldwork ranging from approximately 1875 to the late 1930s). Alvarsson's monograph reviews previous literature on the area, provides additional reconstructive information on the Mataco before the colonization of the area, and updates the existing ethnographic data. This document, used in conjunction with the works of Pelleschi, Métraux, and Karsten, should provide the reader with a relatively complete overview of Mataco culture and society. Other works in the file provide information on Mataco folktales, marriage customs, suicide, and curing ceremonies
Note:
Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina) - by Dr. Alfred Métraux - 1939 -- - Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco - by Alfred Métraux - 1944 -- - Mataco marriage - by Niels Fock - 1963 -- - Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco - by Alfred Métraux - 1943 -- - Ceremonies for the expulsion of illnesses among the Mataco - élisabeth Dijour - 1933 -- - The Mataco of the Gran Chaco: an ethnographic account of change and continuity in Mataco socio-economic organization - by Jan-åke Alvarsson - 1988 -- - Culture summary: Mataco - Jan-å Alvarsson and John Beierle - 1997 -- - The Mataco Indians and their language - [by] Juan Pelleschi. Introduction by Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo - 1897 [1896] -- - Indian tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco: ethnological studies - by Rafael Karsten, Ph.D. - 1932
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Mataco
