book chapter
Indian life: the Gran Chaco (South America)
Albert Bonnier • Leipzig • Published In 1912 • Pages:
By: Nordenskiöld, Erland, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This general ethnography deals primarily with material culture, with little if any information on social structure or organization. After a brief introduction to the geography of the area, the author discusses the various aspects of Chiriguano and Chané adaptation to the geographical environment (knowledge of directions, distance, etc.) and knowledge of their own culture history. The following chapters cover such topics as: daily routine, division of labor, subsistence economy, foods and food preparation, games, clothing, personal cleanliness, the life cycle events, stylistics in language related to "ugly words," homosexuality, suicide, modesty, chiefs, sanctions for various offenses, alcoholic beverages and drinking bouts, arts and industries, folktales, the effects of mission life, and relations with non-Indians (on rubber plantations and in military service).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Alcoholic beverages
- Normal garb
- Games
- Decorative art
- Literary texts
- Chief executive
- Sexuality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chiriguano
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2024
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1967; Leon G. Doyon; 2023
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1908-1909
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908-1909
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central-southern Bolivia; northeastern Salta Province, Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- Erland Nordenskiöld
- Translation of: [Indianerleben: El Gran Chaco (Südamerika)]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- Only pages i-vii, 148-303 and 331-343 have been processed for the Chiriguano file
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 13018335
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chiriguano Indians