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The Uru-Chipaya are a linguistically and culturally distinct (and by some accounts ancient) people of the Titicaca-Poopó basin of the Andean [i]altiplano[/i]. Increasingly marginalized and assimilated from Inca through modern times, by the early twentieth century the few Uru remaining in the single settlement of Iru-Itu or Angoake just south of Lake Titicaca retained some of their traditional economic focus on aquatic resources but had been all but absorbed by the dominant Aymara. A culturally distinctive branch, the Chipaya, had become isolated several hundred kilometers to the south in a village of the same name; since joined by a settlement at Ayparavi. Subsistence depends on a combination of farming, animal husbandry and wage labor, with mostly opportunistic pursuit of once dominant fishing and hunting. The nuclear family is the fundamental unit of an egalitarian society that is divided into three [i]ayllus[/i], each of which annually chooses a chief mayor with civil and religious authority, and a field mayor regulating agricultural affairs.

Music, dance and song of the Chipayas (Bolivia)

The Uru tribute category

The Uru-Chipaya

Contribution to the ethnography and linguistics of the Uro Indians of Ancoaqui (Bolivia)

The Uru-Chipaya Indians of Carangas

Culture Summary

Contribution to the study of the Uru or Kot'suñ Indians

Bibliographic notes and documents on the Uru

Gods & vampires

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Baumann, Max Peter	Music, dance and song of the Chipayas (Bolivia)	1981
Julien, Catherine J.	The Uru tribute category	1987
La Barre, Weston	The Uru-Chipaya	1946
Métraux, Alfred	Contribution to the ethnography and linguistics of the Uro Indians of Ancoaqui (Bolivia)	1935
Métraux, Alfred	The Uru-Chipaya Indians of Carangas	1935
Olson, Ronald D.	Culture Summary	2014
Vellard, Jehan A. (Jehan Albert)	Contribution to the study of the Uru or Kot'suñ Indians	1949
Vellard, Jehan A. (Jehan Albert)	Bibliographic notes and documents on the Uru	1960
Wachtel, Nathan	Gods & vampires	1994

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