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INSTITUTE or SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY — PUBLICATION NO. 12 



Cyro Berlinck, who has always accompanied with 

 interest and undei'standing, efforts to carry on 

 research in the social sciences, as well as A. R. 

 Miiller and Octavio da Costa Eduardo, I am under 

 particular obligation for unfailing support and 

 encouragement. 



For assistance in selecting the locus of study, I 

 am indebted to a former student and present col- 

 league, Mario Wagner Vieira da Cunha. For 

 suggestions regarding possible sources of infor- 

 mation regarding the history of the area studied, 

 I am grateful to Affonso de E. Taunay, Sergio 

 Buarque de Hollanda, and Caio Prado Junior; 

 and for assistance in obtaining such information, 

 to Padre Joao Kulay, of the Arquivo of the Curia 

 Metropolitana of the city of Sao Paulo, Paulino 

 de Almeida, director of the Sec^ao Historica of 

 the Arquivo Publico of the State of Sao Paulo, 

 and Conego J. de Castro Nery. For assistance in 

 identifying the wildlife common to the local habi- 

 tat, I am indebted to Dom Bento Pickel of the 

 Servi^o Florestal, Eduardo Navajas of the Insti- 

 tuto Biologico, Carlos de Cunha Vieira, Messias 

 Carrera, Maria Aparecida Vulcano d'Andretta, 

 and Antonia Amaral Campos of the Departamento 

 de Zoologia, all of Sao Paulo. For assistance in 

 obtaining statistical data, I am grateful to Olavo 

 Batista Filho of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geo- 

 grafia e Estatistica, Manoel Dutra R. Perdigao 

 and Odete Terezinha Wilmers of the Depart- 

 amento de Estatistica, Mario Zaroni of the Secre- 

 taria da Agricultura, Manoel Siqueira of the 

 Secretaria da Fazenda, and Antonio Florencio of 

 the Superintendencia do Cafe, all of Sao Paulo. 

 Father Gregory Feige assisted in the identification 

 of terms used in connection with religious ritual 

 and belief. Obviously, however, no one but the 



author is responsible for any inaccuracies which 

 may occur. 



Maria Mirtes Brandao Lopes typed most of the 

 field notes of the research staff, as well as the final 

 draft of the manuscript. Both she and Levi Por- 

 firio da Cruz read the entire manuscript and of- 

 fered valuable criticism. Were it not for the fact 

 that monogi-aphs in Portuguese, based on our com- 

 mon field notes, to be submitted to the Escola 

 Livre de Sociologia e Politica of Sao Paulo as 

 theses for the master's degree and subsequently 

 published, are planned by both, these collabora- 

 tors might well figure as coauthors of this pub- 

 lication. Juarez Rubens Lopes spent several 

 week ends in the field and also assisted in the col- 

 lection of data available in the city of Sao Paulo. 

 Fernando Altenfelder Silva and Mauricio Segall 

 visited the community, and the former, together 

 with Paulo Eduardo da Costa, aided in the collec- 

 tion of information which was available in public 

 depositories in the capital city. The notes of 

 the preliminary surveys referred to above were 

 typed by Maria Aparecida Cardoso. Approxi- 

 mately 30 of the photographs appearing in the 

 plates were taken by Harald Schultz and about 

 an equal number by Levi Cruz ; several others were 

 taken by Carlos Borges Teixeira. The figures 

 were prepared by Duilo Rizzi and Mario Augusto 

 Pinto. My wife, Helen Batchelor Pierson, has 

 been an invaluable assistant, both in research and 

 in the preparation of the manuscript. 



Additional materials were collected, especially 

 on the relation of the individual to culture and 

 the treatment of disease, which probably will be 

 published later. 



Donald Pierson. 



Sao PatjIjC, Brazil, 

 June 19^9. 



