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On the Aymara Indians of Bolivia and Peru
Journal of the Ethnological Society of London • 2 • Published In 1870 • Pages: 193-305
By: Forbes, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a traveler's account of the Aymara from the nineteenth century. The article contains general descriptions of the area, and of the material culture of the Aymara. In addition Forbes has included information on religion, general impressions of the people, and anthropometry.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Descriptive somatology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aymara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James Leary
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1859-1863
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru, Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Forbes
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aymara Indians