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State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography / José Antonio Kelly

Author:
Kelly, José Antonio  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Venezuela
Orinoco River Delta
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)
Date:
2011
C2011
Topic:
Yanomamo Indians--Health and hygiene  Search this
Yanomamo Indians--Medical care  Search this
Yanomamo Indians--Social conditions  Search this
Public health  Search this
Medical policy  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Shamanism  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_970186

Arqueologia amazônica / Edithe Pereira, Vera Guapindaia, organizadors

Author:
Pereira, Edithe  Search this
Guapindaia, Vera  Search this
Pará (Brazil : State) Secretaria de Estado da Cultura  Search this
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi  Search this
Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional  Search this
Encontro Internacional de Arqueologia Amazônica (2008 : Belém, Brazil)  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. (1,110 p.) : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Amazon River Valley
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Guiana
Date:
2010
Topic:
Indians of South America--Antiquities  Search this
Human settlements--History  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Call number:
F2519.1.A6 A78 2010
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_969778

Forest diversity in the interfluvial zone of the Río Negro and Río Orinoco in Southwestern Venezuela / Gerardo Aymard

Author:
Aymard, Gerardo  Search this
University of Missouri--St. Louis Department of Biology  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 135 leaves : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Manuscripts
Place:
Venezuela
Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil)
Orinoco River (Venezuela and Columbia)
Date:
1997
Topic:
Forest ecology  Search this
Rain forest ecology  Search this
Call number:
QH130 .A96 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_557182

Exploración oficial / Francisco Michelena y Rojas ; edición crítica, introducción e índices, Nelly Arvelo-Jiménez, Horacio Biord Castillo

Author:
Michelena y Rojas, Francisco 1801-1872  Search this
Arvelo de Jiménez, N (Nelly) 1939-  Search this
Biord Castillo, Horacio  Search this
Subject:
Michelena y Rojas, Francisco 1801-1872 Travel  Search this
Physical description:
693 p., [4] plates of leaves (some folded) : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South America
Orinoco River Region (Venezuela and Colombia)
Amazon River Region
Date:
1989
1867
C1989
19th century
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Indians of South America--History  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_934128

Nosotros y los otros : aproximación teórico-metodológica al estudio de la expresión de la etnicidad en la cerámica de las sociedades barrancoide y ronquinoide en el bajo y medio Orinoco, 600 a.C-300 d.C. / Rodrigo Navarrete Sánchez

Author:
Navarrete Sánchez, Rodrigo  Search this
Physical description:
461 p. ; 20 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
2007
2007, c2006
Topic:
Ethnoarchaeology  Search this
Archaeology  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_926908

Caracterización de los grupos humanos rurales de la cuenca hidrográfica del Orinoco en Colombia / Luisa Fernanda Sánchez Silva

Author:
Sánchez Silva, Luisa Fernanda  Search this
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt  Search this
Physical description:
124 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Orinoco River Watershed (Venezuela and Colombia)
Colombia
Date:
2007
C2007
Topic:
Human ecology  Search this
Indians of South America  Search this
Rural conditions  Search this
Call number:
GN564.C7 S26 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_966649

Mitos de creación de la cuenca del Orinoco / textos y adaptación de los mitos Ronny Velásquez

Author:
Velásquez, Ronny  Search this
Physical description:
79 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
1993
C1993
Topic:
Religion  Search this
Call number:
F2230.1.R3 V45 1993
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_543857

Islands in the rainforest : landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia / Stéphen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott

Author:
Rostain, Stéphen  Search this
Eliott, Michelle  Search this
Physical description:
275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
French Guiana
Date:
2013
C2013
Topic:
Indians of South America--Agriculture  Search this
Indians of South America--Land tenure  Search this
Raised field agriculture--History  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Ecology  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_991638

Spirit of the rainforest : a Yanomamö shaman's story / Mark Andrew Ritchie

Author:
Ritchie, Mark A  Search this
Physical description:
271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
Social conditions  Search this
Religion  Search this
Yanomamo mythology  Search this
Shamanism  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_981674

Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco & Guianas / edited by Peter van der Sleen and James S. Albert ; principal illustrator, Peter van der Sleen

Title:
Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco and Guianas
Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco & Guianas
Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco and Guianas
Illustrator:
Sleen, Peter van der  Search this
Editor:
Albert, James S.  Search this
Physical description:
464 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Identification
Field guides
Place:
Amazon River Region
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Guiana
Amazon River
Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
2018
Topic:
Freshwater fishes  Search this
Fishes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1090359

Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, vol. 3

Collection name:
Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964
Physical Description:
1 field book
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 1 Folder 8
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Diary
Maps
Place:
Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad
Saint Vincent
Tobago
Carriacou
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Grenada
Date Range:
1935-1936
Start Date:
19351227
End Date:
19360322
Topic:
Entomology  Search this
Beetles  Search this
Accession #:
SIA Acc. 96-099
Access Information:
Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu.
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Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964
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Blackwelder, Richard E.
Data Source:
Smithsonian Field Book Project
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fbr_item_MODSI2402
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Apuntes sobre la provincia misionera de Orinoco e indígenas de su territorio, con algunas otras particularidades, por el r.p. fray Ramón Bueno ... Los publica, con un prólogo, monseñor Nicolás E. Navarro ..

Author:
Bueno, Ramón fl. 1785-1804  Search this
Navarro, Nicolás E (Nicolás Eugenio) 1867-1960  Search this
Physical description:
2 p. l., [vii]-xviii, 164 p. 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Guiana
Orinoco river
Venezuela
Date:
1933
To 1810
Topic:
Missions  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
History  Search this
Sources  Search this
Call number:
F2351.B84X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_264438

Systematic revision of the neotropical scorpion genus Chactopsis Kraepelin, 1912 (Chactoidea, Chactidae), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species / José A. Ochoa, Fernando J.M. Rojas-Runjaic, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Lorenzo Prendini

Title:
Revision of Chactopsis
Author:
Ochoa, J. A (José A.)  Search this
Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M  Search this
Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo  Search this
Prendini, Lorenzo  Search this
Physical description:
121 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Classification
Place:
Amazon River Valley
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
2013
Topic:
Chactopsis  Search this
Chactopsoides  Search this
Megachactops  Search this
Scorpions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1072240

Orinoco uyapari : [viajeros, pobladores y creadores / dirección general, Virginia Betancourt Valverde ; curaduría de la exposición y el catálogo, Andrés Ortega Mendoza]

Author:
Betancourt Valverde, Virginia  Search this
Ortega Mendoza, Andrés  Search this
Biblioteca Nacional (Venezuela)  Search this
Physical description:
149 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Place:
Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)
Venezuela
Date:
1998
Topic:
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
F2331.O7 O75 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_565888

Mindful of famine : religious climatology of the Warao Indians / Johannes Wilbert

Author:
Wilbert, Johannes  Search this
Physical description:
xxvi, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Venezuela
Orinoco River Delta
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
Religion  Search this
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Folklore  Search this
Human beings--Effect of environment on  Search this
Weather forecasting--Folklore  Search this
Religious life and customs  Search this
Climate  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_521942

Phelps Expedition to Territory of Amazonas, Venezuela (1954)

Record type:
Expedition name
Place:
Amazonas
Venezuela
Orinoco
Esmeralda
Río Yatua
Cerro de la Neblina
Río Guainía
Puerto Ayacucho
Date Range:
1954 - 1954
Topic:
Ornithology  Search this
Botany  Search this
Geology  Search this
See more records related to participants:
Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
Kempton, J. H. (James Howard), 1891-1970
Phelps, William Henry 1902-
Phelps, Kathleen D. de, 1908-
Reynolds, Charles D.
Zuloaga, Guillermo
See more records related to this expedition:
Phelps Expedition to Territory of Amazonas, Venezuela (1954)
Data Source:
Smithsonian Field Book Project
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:auth_exp_fbr_EACE0039

Biology, status and conservation of Inia geoffrensis in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins

Author:
Best, R. C  Search this
Da Silva, V. M. F  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
1989
Topic:
Boutu  Search this
Bouto  Search this
Amazon porpoise  Search this
Museum management  Search this
Distribution  Search this
Reproductions  Search this
Anatomy  Search this
Physiology  Search this
Coloration  Search this
Feeding - Foraging  Search this
Behavior  Search this
Migration  Search this
Habitat encroachment  Search this
Abundance  Search this
Geographical variation  Search this
Catches  Search this
Ecology  Search this
Growth, curve  Search this
Fishery interaction  Search this
Taxonomy:
Cetacea--Odontocetes--Platanistidae--Inia--geoffrensis
Data Source:
Marine Mammals Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_9508

Biodiversidad de la cuenca del Orinoco. II, Áreas prioritarias para la conservación y uso sostenible / Carlos A. Lasso ... [and seven others], editores

Title:
Áreas prioritarias para la conservación y uso sostenible
Editor:
Lasso, Carlos A (Carlos Andrés)  Search this
Issuing body:
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt  Search this
Physical description:
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm + 2 maps (color ; 35 x 50 cm, folded to 25 x 18 cm)
Type:
Maps
Place:
Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
Date:
2011
Topic:
Biodiversity  Search this
Biodiversity conservation  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1105391

Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, vol. 2

Collection name:
Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964
Physical Description:
1 field book
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 1 Folder 7
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Diary
Maps
Place:
Puerto Rico
Saint Thomas
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad
Guadeloupe
Sans Souci
Ciales
Grande-Terre
La Brea
Date Range:
1935
Start Date:
19350918
End Date:
19351226
Topic:
Entomology  Search this
Beetles  Search this
Accession #:
SIA Acc. 96-099
Access Information:
Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu.
See more records from this collection:
Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964
See more records associated with this person:
Blackwelder, Richard E.
Data Source:
Smithsonian Field Book Project
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fbr_item_MODSI2383
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