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Navaho pottery makingbook chapter 1941 • Tschopik, Harry
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book contains valuable data on the technology of Navajo pottery making. Within the preceding ten years, pottery making had ceased to be an active craft. Part I represents the technologica...Taboo as a possible factor involved in the obsolescence of Navaho pottery and basketrybook chapter 1938 • Tschopik, Harry
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The author, an ethnologist who made several studies of Navajo material culture, carried out the fieldwork for this paper under the supervision of Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn. He traces briefly the his...Shipibo kinship termsarticle 1958 • Tschopik, Harry
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This article consists of a listing of kinship terms used by the Shipibo of the montaña region of eastern Peru. A brief summary, which concludes this paper, outlines the salient features of Shi...The Aymaraessay 1946 • Tschopik, Harry
Aymara • South America > Central Andes
This is an important ethnographic description of the Aymara. Tschopik used his own field data and secondary data to produce a concise description of the Aymara. The subjects discussed include ...The Aymara of Chucuito, PeruBook 1951 • Tschopik, Harry
Aymara • South America > Central Andes
Tschopik's work is a detailed study of Aymara belief and behavior about the supernatural. The book contains background information on economics, kinship, etc., and data on the life cycle and b...