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The Mataco of the Gran Chaco: an ethnographic account of change and continuity in Mataco socio-economic organization
Academiae Upsaliensis ; Distributed by Almqvist &Wiskell International • (11) • Published In 1988 • Pages: XVI, 314
By: Alvarsson, Jan-Åke.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation gives a detailed, diachronic description of the social, political, legal and economic organization of the Mataco - hunters and gatherers of the tropical dry forest of the Bolivian Gran Chaco. The account starts with a critical review of the main ethnographic sources on the Chaco peoples and, after sections on the enviornment and the local history, it presents an attempt to reconstruct the socio-economic organization of the Mataco before the colonization of the area, i.e. before the turn of the century. In addition, on the basis of Alvarsson's field notes from five years among the Mataco, new ethnographic data is included. The data demonstrate that, in spite of evident social change, and in contrast to other Indian peoples of the region, the Mataco have refused to be incorporated into the national society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Food quest
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- Community structure
- Cosmology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mataco
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- Book
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1900-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gran Chaco region, Bolivia, Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Jan-åke Alvarsson
- Revision of the author's dissertation
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-310) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89135346
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mataco Indians