| Included Work | Coe, Felix G. Ethnobotany of the Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua. |
| Included Work | Conzemius, Eduard. Ethnographical survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua. |
| Included Work | Helms, Mary W. Culture summary, Miskito. |
| Included Work | Helms, Mary W. Of kings and contexts, ethnohistorical interpretations of Miskito political structure and function. |
| Included Work | Helms, Mary W. Asang, adaptations to culture contact in a Miskito community. |
| Included Work | Herlihy, Laura Hobson. Sexual magic and money, Miskitu women's strategies in northern Honduras. |
| Included Work | Herlihy, Laura Hobson. Matrifocality and women's power on the Miskito Coast. |
| Included Work | Jamieson, Mark. It's shame that makes men and women enemies: the politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila. |
| Included Work | Jamieson, Mark. Masks and madness, ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents. |
| Included Work | Pijoan, Michel, 1909- Health and customs of the Miskito Indians of northern Nicaragua. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF World Cultures. Middle America and the Caribbean. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Ethnobotany of the Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua / Felix G. Coe ; Gregory J. Anderson -- Ethnographical survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua / by Eduard Conzemius -- Culture summary, Miskito ; Of kings and contexts, ethnohistorical interpretations of Miskito political structure and function ; Asang, adaptations to culture contact in a Miskito community / Mary W. Helms -- Sexual magic and money, Miskitu women's strategies in northern Honduras ; Matrifocality and women's power on the Miskito Coast / Laura Hobson Herlihy -- It's shame that makes men and women enemies, the politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila ; Masks and madness, ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents / Mark Jamieson -- The health and customs of the Miskito Indians of northern Nicaragua, interrelationships in a medical program / Michel Pijoan. |
| Scope and content |
This collection about the Miskito consists of 10 documents that cover a period from about 1500 to the early twenty-first century. The geographical focus of this collection is on the eastern regions of Nicaragua and Honduras, an area bordering the Caribbean coast and known historically as the Miskito (or Mosquito) Coast. The primary document on the traditional culture of the Miskito is that of Conzemius, which presents an ethnographical survey of the Miskito and Sumu (Sumo) Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua from about the early sixteenth to the early twentieth century. In this study comparisons are made between Miskito and Sumu cultures (the latter group generally considered as a subgroup of the Miskito). Of particular interest in this work is the information on early contacts with Europeans, as well as on the traditional aspects of warfare, subsistence, religious beliefs and practices, material culture, and funeral customs. The remainder of the documents in this collection are community studies. Helms provides information on how the Miskito have adapted to culture contact in the village of Asang in northeastern Nicaragua, particularly in regard to social, economic, political, and religious life, and provides some additional data on Miskito culture in general. Other ethnographic topics discussed in this collection include information on the health and customs of the Miskito Indians, in Pijoan, which also presents a brief historical sketch of the Miskito and a summary of the modern Indians. Two documents by Jamieson, are focused on the village of Kakabila in eastern Nicaragua, and deal with the politics of intimacy among the Miskito and the ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among adolescents in the village. Other topics treated here are the ethnobotany of the Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua in Coe and Anderson; ethnohistorical interpretations of Miskito political structure and function, in Helms; and women's status in Herlihy, Both of the Herlihy documents deal with the village of Kuri in northeastern Honduras. |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2011 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Mosquito. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Nov. 14, 2011). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
