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Culture Summary: Chorote
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2017 • Pages:
By: Siffredi, Alejandra, Gubler, Ruth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Chorote peoples. Information is presented on major aspects of Chorote culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chorote
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- 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.
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- 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
- 1901-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwestern Argentina; western Paraguay; southeastern Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alejandra Siffredi (Translated by Ruth Gubler)
- This culture summary is from the article "Chorote" by Alejandra Siffredi (Ruth Gubler, transl.), in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol. 7, South America, Johannes Wilbert, ed. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co. 1994. Population figures were updated by Leon G. Doyon in May, 2017.
- Translated by Ruth Gubler
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Choroti Indians