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Slaves without masters?: Arawakan dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, sixteenth to twentieth centuries)
Ethnohistory • 53 (4) • Published In 2006 • Pages: 689-714
By: Combès, Isabelle, Lowrey, Kathleen B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Chiriguano are the product of a Guaraní invasion of the more numerous Chané, an Arawakan tribe that had previously settled the region. Some scholars have depicted this as a violent process, with the former enslaving the latter and in some accounts even eating them. The author instead suggests that an Arawakan ethos of accommodation would have led to a process whereby the Chané absorbed the Guaraní, exchanged women with them, and produced a hybrid population that came to be known as the Chiriguano. Furthermore, the author argues that centrifugal political forces within Amazonian tribes could not long accommodate the social hierarchy inherent in a slave society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Historical and archival research
- Historical reconstruction
- Cultural participation
- Cultural identity and pride
- Linguistic identification
- Ethnic stratification
- Chief executive
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2023
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1555-2006
- 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
- NotesAdditional notes
- Isabelle Combès ; Kathleen Lowrey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 711-714)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chiriguano Indians