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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Tehuelche
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Southern South America
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1670-1968
- Coverage Place
- Argentina
- Notes
- E. Glynn Williams
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105)
- LCCN
- 81150227
- LCSH
- Tehuelche Indians