Talamancans : SA19.

Included WorkBozzoli de Wille, María Eugenia. Culture summary, Talamancans.
Included WorkGabb, William M. On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica.
Included WorkIbarra R., Eugenia (Ibarra Rojas). Política y etnicidad en sociedades en transición en la zona sur de Costa Rica.
Included WorkMeléndez Chaverri, Carlos. Antonio Saldaña, last king of Talamanca. Appendix III.
Included WorkNygren, Anja. Struggle over meanings.
Included WorkPittier, Henri, 1857-1950. Folk-lore of the Bribri and Brunka Indians in Costa Rica.
Included WorkSkinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 Notes on the Bribri of Costa Rica.
Included WorkStone, Doris, 1909-1994. Talamancan tribes of Costa Rica.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF World Cultures. Middle America and the Caribbean
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Contents Culture summary, Talamancans / María Eugenia Bozzoli de Wille -- On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica / Wm. M. Gabb -- Política y etnicidad en sociedades en transición en la zona sur de Costa Rica : Boruca y Talamanca siglos XVI al XIX / Eugenia Ibarra R. -- Antonio Saldaña, last king of Talamanca : appendix III / Carlos Meléndez Ch. -- Struggle over meanings : reconstruction of indigenous mythology, cultural identity, and social representation / Anja Nygren -- Folk-lore of the Bribri and Brunka Indians in Costa Rica / H. Pittier de Fabrega -- Notes on the Bribri of Costa Rica / Alanson Skinner -- The Talamancan tribes of Costa Rica / Doris Z. Stone.
Scope and content This collection of 8 documents, seven in English and one in Spanish, provides general information for the Bribri, Boruca and Cabecar subcultures in southern Costa Rica; information on the Terraba is limited. Historical reconstructions cover the Conquest and Colonial eras of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Most primary evidence pertains to a few decades before and after the turn of, and one decade in the middle of, the twentieth century (1873-1917, the 1950s). Gabb and Stone respectively present general ethnographies for the late nineteenth and middle twentieth centuries, with particular focus on the Bribri and Cabécar. Skinner adds some description of funerary customs for an intermediate time, but for the most part describes material culture in detail, much of it collections representing crafts already extinct. Pittier supplies a collection of Bribri and Boruca folklore from the end of the nineteenth century. Nygren looks specifically at Bribri mythology as it relates to social identity within the nation of Costa Rica during the twentieth century. Ibarra and Meléndez provide more strictly historical works: Ibarra analyzes the contrasting trajectories of the Boruca and the Cabécar-Bribri in maintaining their cultures under external pressures, from first European contact through the nineteenth century; Meléndez documents the career of the last Talamancan king at the end of that period.
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