Durch Central-Brasilien
Expedition zur Erforschung des Schingú im Jahre 1884

An explorer's diary containing rich geographical, ethnographic and linguistic data from an 1880s expedition to Brazil.

Karl von den Steinen (Author)

9781108007320, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 April 2010

452 pages, 92 b/w illus. 3 maps 3 tables
24.4 x 17 x 2.3 cm, 0.71 kg

Karl von den Steinen (1855–1929) was a German physician, explorer and ethnologist who did pioneering work on the anthropology of Brazil's indigenous peoples. This book, published in 1886, describes the first of his two expeditions to the previously uncharted Xingu River. It begins with observations of colonial society in the coastal cities, an economic overview, and a summary of European exploration in the region. The main part of the book mixes sustained narrative and descriptive passages recounting the party's experiences with day by day journal notes on topography, geology, flora, fauna and population, incorporating weather records, river depth, arrival and departure times, and other brief but telling details (Viele Moskitos.). It includes substantial ethnographic descriptions, consideration of the local languages and their typology, and five glossaries, the most substantial being of Bakairi, for which a grammar sketch is also included. The book is generously illustrated with engravings and three maps.

Vorwort
1. Geschichtliches über den Schingú
2. Mato Grosso
3. Von Asuncion nach Corumbá
4. Von Corumbá nach Cuyabá
5. Allgemeines über Cuyabá
6. Unser Aufenthalt in Cuyabá
7. Marsch von Cuyabá zu den zahmen Bakaïri am Rio Novo
8. Das erste Dorf der Bakaïri
9. Über die Hochebene des Mato Grosso
10. Fahrt auf dem Batovy bis zu den ersten Indainern
11. Die wilden Bakaïri
12. Mündung des Batovy
13. Zusammentreffen mit den Trumaí
14. Die Suyá und Manitsauá
15. Eintritt des Stromes in das Gebirge
16. Die Yuruna
17. Von Piranhaquara bis zur Mündung in den Amazonas
18. Legenden der Bakaïri
19. Americanische Sprachverwandtschaften
20. Die Bakaïri und die Guck-Theorie
21. Die Heimat der Kariben
22. Die Einführung der Banane
23. Die Tapuya-Stämme
24. Ethnologische Schlussbetrachtung
Anhang.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]