…The Aymara people include several ethnic subgroups, each with its own dialect and social structure. In general, their social organization is based on territorial divisions, although the adoption of…
Social organization
…These inland hunters were organized as nomadic family groups, with labor divided by sex and by age. They began to occupy more permanent encampments at the start of the…
Social Organization Depicted on a Gourd
…Las sociedades indígenas del norte de Chile estaban internamente organizadas según principios de dualidad y jerarquía. Había también alianzas entre los diversos grupos étnicos. Es probable que uno…
Social organization
…These groups lived in small family bands and moved up and down the coast. As their marine-based economy became more established they gradually became less mobile, organizing themselves into…
Social organization
…chiefs were ethnic leaders responsible for performing ceremonies and organizing productive activities within their group. Other individuals in the society were recognized for being experts in a given trade; these…
Organización Social
…Tierra del Fuego’s Isla Grande was divided into haruwen (territories), each occupied by an extended family group. Selk’nam society was organized around four basic social institutions. The first was…
Social organization
…The community provides the organizational structure of Atacameño society and gives form to the social, economic and religious relations that govern a given territory owned communally by a number…
Social Organization
…Traditional Diaguita society tended to be was organized around family and extended family ties. But the modern Diaguita indigenous community has only recently emerged, under the auspices of Indigenous…
Social organization
…It has been suggested that these coastal peoples were organized into patrilocal clans, based on a nuclear or extended family, each independent and economically self-sufficient. Some writers believe that…
Organización Social
…Up to the 16th century, Mapuche society was organized in a polygamous kinship system that was patrilineal—lineage was passed down through the male line. In the first half of…
Social Organization
…Traditional Quechua communities are organized into groups based on extended family or friendship ties, and their members live in both urban and rural settings. The community comes together for…
Social organization
These hunter-gatherer groups had an egalitarian society with a division of labor by sex and age only. It is likely that these communities lived in small family bands…
Organización Social
…The Paleo-Indian peoples were organized into small family groups without social hierarchies, although certain individuals probably attained a level of prestige and authority in decision making through experience or…
Farmers and herders with central organization
…in the arid north and the Inka expansion into northern Chile. In both cases, the way of life revolved around a centralized authority, who organized the economy into a macro-regional…
Social Organization
…Traditional Colla society is organized on the basis of family and friendship ties among people living in the same locality. With the official constitution of indigenous communities under Indigenous…
Social organization
…The different societies living in Kollasuyu in the mid-15th Century were organized into estates with different levels of social complexity. Local leaders were placed in charge of small territories,…
Social organization
…The Pica lived in entities similar to chiefdoms, with a relatively complex hierarchy and authorities that organized the work force within a circumscribed territory. The smallest social units were…
Social organization
…The Choapa people were a mobile society that lived in low-density regions, probably in extended family groups that were egalitarian in organization with a division of labor based on…
Social organization
…Little is known of the social organization of these groups. However, it is likely that they lived in small family bands that enabled them to move around easily, as…
Organización Social
These groups probably lived in small semi-sedentary family bands that ranged freely around this forested territory and divided their labor efficiently among family…
Organización Social
…These groups organized themselves around small family groups that moved through their territory in seasonal cycles in search of food. As their way of life became better adapted to…
Social organization
…choose and organize the location of the camp. Although Tehuelche society was matrilocal, the males held the power within each group. However, the Tehuelche were extremely independent in general, lacking…
Social organization
…These societies were organized into “señoríos,” generally based on kinship relations and without social classes as such, but in which certain individuals had higher status and prestige due to…