Ritual (and Myth) transformations in the Gran Chaco [PDF]
, 2023 Based on the inspiration Peter Gow takes from Lévi-Strauss\u27 canonical formula or double twist and his concept of ensemble, this article aims to illustrate by analogy how the rituals of female initiation, such as the Yammana of the Enlhet-Enenlhet, or ...
Villagra Carron, Rodrigo Juan
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L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning
Language Teaching Research, 2020 As a personality trait, ‘grit’ has been defined as a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Past research in social psychology has found grit as an important predictor of success across different populations in various academic and ...
Y. Teimouri +2 more
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Lexicography in the Eighteenth-century Gran Chaco: the Old Zamuco Dictionary by Ignace Chomé [PDF]
, 2018 The Vocabulario de la lengua zamuca is the only extant dictionary of Old Zamuco, an extinct Zamucoan language spoken in the 18th century in the abandoned mission of San Ignacio de Samucos, located in the northern Chaco lowlands of South America.
Ciucci, Luca
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The Tomárâho conception of the sky [PDF]
, 2011 The small community of the Tomárâho, an ethnic group culturally derived from the Zamucos, have become known in the South American and world anthropological scenario in recent times. This group, far from the banks of the Paraguay river, remained concealed
Gangui, A., Sequera, G.
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On rare typological features of the Zamucoan languages, in the framework of the Chaco linguistic area [PDF]
, 2015 [Extract] The Zamucoan family only includes two surviving endangered languages:Ayoreo (AY) and Chamacoco (CH), spoken in northern Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay by approximately 4500 and 2000 people, respectively. The Zamucoan family also includes an
Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Ciucci, Luca
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Truth of Varying Shades: Analyzing Language in Fake News and Political Fact-Checking
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017 We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-checking and fake news detection. We compare the language of real news with that of satire, hoaxes, and propaganda to find linguistic characteristics of ...
Hannah Rashkin +4 more
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Language secrecy and concealment in Chamacoco (Zamucoan).
, 2023 This study addresses language secrecy and concealment in Chamacoco, with particular reference to the so-called Ebitoso dialect, spoken by the vast majority of Chamacoco people. Secrecy and concealment involving Chamacoco manifest themselves into four aspects: (i) the secrecy of the Chamacoco Indigenous religion, which resulted in linguistic taboos ...
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‘A Kind of Bliss, a Closing Eyelid, a Tiny Fainting Spell’: Zama and the Lapse Into Colour [PDF]
, 2022 Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date, but has nonetheless become one of the world’s most admired directors. Her work is extraordinarily sensitive to the limits of sensory perception, the limits imposed by gender roles, and the limits ...
Martin, Deborah
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Reflections on language documentation in the Chaco [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter focuses on field research aimed at documenting Chaco languages with varying degrees of vitality, specifically those spoken in Argentina and in the vicinity of the Argentinian/Paraguayan, Argentinian/Bolivian, and Paraguayan/Bolivian borders.
Golluscio, Lucía, Vidal, Alejandra
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Influencia de la vida urbana en el estilo de vida de los indígenas del barrio Redención de la ciudad de Concepción, año 2018: Influence of urban life on the lifestyle of the indigenous people of the Redención neighborhood of the city of Concepción, year 2018 [PDF]
, 2022 Este artículo se enfoca en responder la siguiente pregunta general: ¿Cómo ha influido en el estilo de vida de los indígenas del barrio Redención su asentamiento en la zona urbana?
Carvallo Peña, Pablo Javier +2 more
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