book chapter
The Aymara
Handbook of South American Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward • 2 • Published In 1946 • Pages: 505-512
By: Tschopik, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is an excerpt ('Archeology' and 'Documented History') of the entry for the Aymara in the Handbook of South American Indians. There is a description of the distinctive burial tombs (CHULLPA) of the post-Tiahuanaco and pre-Inca period. Tschopik also discusses the Inca and later Spanish conquests and the colonial period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Burial practices and funerals
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aymara Kingdoms
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- 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
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry Tschopik
- Only pages 505-512 are included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46026504
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities