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The Chiriguano and Izozó

Revista de la sociedad cientifica del Paraguay • 4 (3) • Published In 1938 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-234 [Original: 1-115 ]

By: Schmidt, Max, Muirden, Sydney.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This ethnographic monograph on the Chiriguano offers a comprehensive but not exhaustive coverage of culture and society. While there is in-depth description and analysis of Chiriguano technology and material culture, the discussion of their sociopolitical structure, religious organization, processes of ecological adaptation, and economic system is very brief. The author is a German ethnologist and expresses the viewpoint of the German-Austrian ethnohistorical and diffusionist theoretical movement. Schmidt examines and evaluates data on materials, mode of construction, and style variations of the following: transport types, house forms, ceramics, basketry, weaving, implements and weaponry, stone and wood technology, leather use, cooking, diet, clothing and ornament, etc., according to the nature of the origins, derivations, and cross-cultural relationships of the material culture inventory. The sections on material culture derive mainly from his own research in the field, those on religion, history and sociopolitical organization from both primary and secondary sources. Considerable comparative material on the Chane and the Izozo (a divison of the Chane) are also included.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Recording and collecting in the field

Comparative evidence

Historical reconstruction

Acculturation and culture contact

Animal by-products

Woven and other interworked fabrics

Normal garb

Ornament

Weapons

General tools

Utensils

Games

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

article

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

Gilbert Winer ; 1967-1968; Leon G. Doyon; 2023

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1935

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1908-1935

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Tarija, Chuquisaca and southwestern Santa Cruz departments, Bolivia; Boquerón Department, Paraguay

NotesAdditional notes

Max Schmidt

Translation of: [Los Chiriguanos e Izozós]

It should be noted that in the section on the cultural history and foreign relations of the Chiriguano, pp. 13-25, the author indicates that the Chiriguano are actually the same Guarani he had been discussing previously, with simply a change in name; therefore, cultural data have been marked for both files since a clear-cut distinction has not been made between them. The vocabulary for the Chiriguano of Machareti and the Izozo of the Parapiti River, pp. 92-111, is omitted in the translation, as is the list of sources on the Chiriguano and Chane and their history, pp. 111-115. These sections are provided in the foreign text.

Translated for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Chiriguano Indians