Range area and seasonal campsites of Toba bands in western Chaco, Argentina

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ID9398136
AutoresMarcela Mendoza (0000-0001-8163-8986, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis, 320 Manning Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume2003
Fascículo4
Páginas1-12
Data de publicação2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHunter Gatherer Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1476-4253 • E-ISSN: 2056-3264
EditoraLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/bfarm.2003.4.2
OpenAlexW2081605784
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas11

Toba bands (co-residential groups of related families) have trekked the land at the intersection of the Pilcomayo River with the Tropic of Capricorn (Formosa Province, Argentina) since at least the 1840s. Previously, the Toba had been self-organised, mobile hunter-gatherers focused primarily on the exploitation of animals and terrestrial plants in the water-depressed microenvironments of western Chaco. My discussion of the bands' range areas and criteria for choosing campsites is based on the elders' recollection of their trekking in the 1920s. At that time, they were already living under conditions of ‘regional packing’ produced by cattle-posts. According to my analysis of oral information from 12 bands, the mean range area was 463 km2 and the mean distances that the bands travelled between campsites varied from 8 to 13 km. The estimated number of persons per band during the most dispersed phase of the annual cycle was between 14 and 35 or more. An estimated 553 Toba people trekked these range areas at t

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