Moxos in its Appropriate Time and Place: Notes for Reconsidering the History of a Name
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v39i1.175-199Keywords:
ethnonyms, etymology, ethnohistory, 16th and 17th centuries, Bolivian AmazonAbstract
This article presents the different ethnic groups known collectively as Moxos that were identifiable in the early colonial period through the geography of Antisuyu, and beyond their traditional identification with the Arawak peoples of the Mamoré. We demonstrate that the term corresponds to a generic category applied indistinctly to different Antisuyu groups. An etymological proposal is put forward for the term, based on a general category of Aymara origin that was used to stereotypically name the jungle ‘others’ that inhabited the eastern foothills of the Andean mountain range.
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2022-06-30
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