essay
An ecological perspective of socioterritorial organization among the Teheulche in the ninteenth century
Peasants, primitives, and proletariats : the struggle for identity in South America • The Hague • Published In 1979 • Pages: 75-105
By: Williams, E. Glynn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper reinvestigates the socioterritorial organization of the Tehuelche Indians by using ecological perspectives. It concludes that Tehuelche soceity was divided into six major unitw which in turn consisted of about for small bands numering about seventy. Tehuelche bands were led by hereditary <native>caciques</native> but their membership was extremely fluid.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Fowling
- Hunting and trapping
- Animal by-products
- Preservation and storage of food
- Diet
- Land use
- Water supply
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- External trade
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Occupational specialization
- Travel
- Routes
- Animal transport
- Verbal arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Ethnic stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Regulation of marriage
- Household
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- Poverty
- Ritual
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnosociology
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tehuelche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1670-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. Glynn Williams
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81150227
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tehuelche Indians