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Date:1590-1976
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Diaries | Dictionaries | Grammars | Maps | Reports | Theses | Field notes | Stories
Extent:26 reels
Description: This collection includes field notes and reports, diaries of expeditions, texts, grammars, dictionaries of Indian languages, theses and research papers collected by members of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago in connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Research Program as well as various Central American governmental agencies. A microfilm publication of the University of Chicago, 1946-1957. Table of contents. Originals at theUniversity of Chicago.
Collection:Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976 (Mss.Film.297)
Language:Spanish
Date:1780-1800
Contributor:Moncroy, Francisco de Paula | Aniles, Gabriel de | Carabed, Josef Eustagius | Dios, Juan de | Laura Inga, Andres | Pannilla, Manuel | Tupacatary Inga, Julian | Tupa-Amaro Inga, Andres | Tupa-Amaro Inga, Miguel | Tupac-Amaru, José Gabriel, 1742-1781 | Segurola, Sebastián de, 1740-1789 | Losa, Esteban de
Subject:Bolivia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Speeches | Declarations | Proclamations | Depositions | Correspondence | Statements | Diaries | Journals
Extent:26 items
Description: Items relating to the uprising of Túpac Amaru II (José Gabriel Condorcanqui) in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, 1781-1783. Bulk 1780-1783. Topics include the proclamation of Túpac Amaru II entitling himself Inca; the Siege of La Paz; Spanish efforts to relieve La Paz; the capture of Túpac Amaru II and his wife and family; the pardon and pension of Túpac Amaru II [as most sources indicate that he was executed in 1781, it is possible that he is here confused with others who took the name Túpac Amaru]; an affidavit given by former prisoners of Túpac Amaru II; an official copy of the sentence and execution of the indigenous leader Chabe Diego (Janos) Christoval Túpac Amaru and others; and the 1800 opinion of the Fiscal Villaba respecting the lenient and conciliatory measures to be adopted toward indigenous rebels as an alternative to persecution.
Collection:Collection of Peruvian manuscripts, 1790-1800, 1820 (Mss.980.P75)
Culture:
Language:Spanish
Date:1748-1759
Contributor:Parras, Pedro José, -1788?
Subject:South America--History | Uruguay--History | Argentina--History | Paraguay--History | Missions | Jesuits | Spain--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume (450 pages)
Description: A travel narrative devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians. Includes list of Jesuits at various missions.
Collection:Diario y derrotero de los viages que ha hecho desde que salió de la Ciudad de Zaragosa en Aragón para la América, 1748-1759 (Mss.918.P24)
Culture:
Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish
Date:1912
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Castillo, Andrea | Pastor, Pedro Marcelino | Castillo, Ignacio | Vásquez, Ines | Vásquez, Manuel | Avesilla, Eleuteria | Trinidad, María | Martinez, Sabina | Ramos, Gil | Raquel, Mauricia | Feliciana | Réz, Joaquina | Nicha, Paula | Pina, Estanislao | Pina, Epifanio | Peñafiel, Antonio | Vásquez, Ezéquiel | Castillo, Iguario | María, José
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Field notes | Notebooks | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Poqomam includes: Pokomam
Date:1955
Contributor:Miles, Suzanne W.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Diaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: Anthropologist Suzanne W. Miles received her Ph.D. at Radcliffe in 1955 for a study of the Pokom-Maya Indians [Poqomam]; she died in Guatemala in the mid-1960s. This volume is a field diary kept by Miles in the Cuchmatanes mountains of Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.
Collection:Suzanne W. Miles field diary (Mss.572.9728.M59)