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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2024
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Southern South America
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2023
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1555-2006
- Coverage Place
- Tarija, Chuquisaca, and southwestern Santa Cruz departments, Bolivia
- Notes
- Isabelle Combès ; Kathleen Lowrey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 711-714)
- LCCN
- 57043343
- LCSH
- Chiriguano Indians