Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo by Luca Ciucci

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Bessire Lucas, Behold the black caiman. A chronicle of Ayoreo life by Alfonso Otaegui

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Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco by Lucas Bessire

“…Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco. This essay describes the ujnarone curing chants among the so-called Ayoreo Indians of the Bolivian and Paraguayan Gran Chaco as a communicative and media technology whose potency was rooted in the multiplicities of social time and the dynamism of performative contexts. …”
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Paola Canova, Frontier Intimacies. Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco by María Agustina Morando

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Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen by Salvatore D’Onofrio

“…Warfare and Story among the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. For the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, warfare is not something just to be fought, it is also something to be recounted in stories. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…The ethnic names, still in use in 1940, to designate the indigenous peoples of the Chaco Boreal (Chulupi, Moro, Chamacoco, Lenguas…) were gradually replaced over the following decades by a new layer of names (Nivaclé, Ayoreo, Ishir, Enlhet…) all of which can be translated as « men », or « humans ». …”
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