Navaho pottery making
book chapter 1941 • Tschopik, Harry

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book contains valuable data on the technology of Navajo pottery making. Within the preceding ten years, pottery making had ceased to be an active craft. Part I represents the technological details of pottery manufacture. Part II relates pottery ...

Taboo as a possible factor involved in the obsolescence of Navaho pottery and basketry
book chapter 1938 • Tschopik, Harry

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The author, an ethnologist who made several studies of Navajo material culture, carried out the fieldwork for this paper under the supervision of Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn. He traces briefly the history of the recent decline in the use of native baskets an...

Shipibo kinship terms
article 1958 • Tschopik, Harry

Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This article consists of a listing of kinship terms used by the Shipibo of the montaña region of eastern Peru. A brief summary, which concludes this paper, outlines the salient features of Shipibo kinship terminology....

The Aymara
essay 1946 • Tschopik, Harry

Aymara • South America > Central Andes
This is an important ethnographic description of the Aymara. Tschopik used his own field data and secondary data to produce a concise description of the Aymara. The subjects discussed include archaeology, history, religion, social organization, econo...

The Aymara of Chucuito, Peru
Book 1951 • Tschopik, Harry

Aymara • South America > Central Andes
Tschopik's work is a detailed study of Aymara belief and behavior about the supernatural. The book contains background information on economics, kinship, etc., and data on the life cycle and basic or modal personality of Aymara. Particular attention ...