book chapter
Ethnographical research work during the Swedish Chaco-Cordillera Expedition, 1901-1902
C. E. Fritze, Ltd. • Stockholm • Published In 1924 • Pages:
By: Rosen, Eric von.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Chorote (Choroti) section of this work is divided into five chapters: the country and the people, dwellings; dress and ornaments; modes of subsistence; food and drink, household furniture; narcotics and intoxicants, games and amusements; and family life and social organization, superstitions, illness and death. The emphasis throughout is upon description of material culture and comparisons with other South American groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Dwellings
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Diet
- Furniture
- Utensils
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Games
- Theory of disease
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Explorer
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961 ; Leon G. Doyon ; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1901-1902
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1901-1902
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tarija department, Bolivia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Count Eric von Rosen
- Pages 187-268, dealing with the Chiriguano, the Gauchos, the Indians of Tarija Valley, and the Toba, have not been processed
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-275)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78101609
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Gran Chaco--Social life and customs