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Show ogist, anthropologist, or ethnologist, he should be able to understand their methodology and give full consideration to the applicability of the source materials they provide. Guides to historical methodology once referred to the "auxiliary sciences," and included in this category: bibliography, anthropology, linguistics, geography, paleography, archaeology, genealogy, etc. This approach is no longer fashionable. Historians are now developing what might be referred to as a "behavioral" approach that makes reference to quantification, the use of computers to manipulate data, etc. All that is really new about this is the availability of more sophisticated computers. Similar data has been employed by historians for some time. For our purposes we should make the point that all the data is available to us that is available to the "auxiliary sciences," if we know how to use it. But we should use it as historians, according to our own methodology, and not try to outdo other specialists in their own fields, for this usually turns out to be a losing game. We are experimenting with a regionalization that involves the use of nations, or groups of nations, as reference points because we want to be able to relate available sources to a continuum that will eventually involve native peoples with European-American cultural and governmental systems. These are the nations and/or regions: 1. Argentina and Tierra del Fuego 2. Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay 3. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile v |