Mary Weismantel's academic anthropological study of race, sex and violence in Andean popular culture, examined through the figures of the chola and the pishtaco, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2, an award winning academic anthropological study integrating archival documents, folklore collection, festival ethnography and long term fieldwork in Ecuador and the wider Andes. The standard scholarly treatment in English of the pishtaco legend and the racial history it encodes, winner of the American Ethnological Society's 2003 Senior Book Prize. Citation
AuthorMary Weismantel
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year2001
Source Typeacademic reference
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This source backs 25 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Mythical Creatures, 15 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 connected, 3 general references.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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