Tras las huellas de los ñanaigua: De tapii, tapiete y otros salvajes en el Chaco boliviano
Among the many ethnonyms that proliferate throughout the colonial records, those of tapii and tapiete have challenged a number of scholars, and have even been deemed an “ethnographic enigma.” Largely due to ignorance of their original and generic meaning —“slaves” and “true slaves”— both have given...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Institut Français d'Études Andines
2004-04-01
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| Series: | Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/5713 |
| Summary: | Among the many ethnonyms that proliferate throughout the colonial records, those of tapii and tapiete have challenged a number of scholars, and have even been deemed an “ethnographic enigma.” Largely due to ignorance of their original and generic meaning —“slaves” and “true slaves”— both have given rise to several confusions in subsequent literature. In fact, the labels tapii and tapiete have been used to designate different ethnic groups in different times and places. This essay is an attempt to shed light on the ethnic landscape of the Bolivian Chaco by proposing a third generic term —ñanaigua, or savage— and providing unpublished historical data about the ethnic groups thus named during the 19th century. |
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| ISSN: | 0303-7495 2076-5827 |