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Naming a phantom – the quest to find the identity of
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2009 The botanical identification of Ulluchu, an iconic fruit frequently depicted in the art of the pre-Columbian Moche culture that flourished from A.D. 100–800 on the Peruvian north coast, has eluded scientists since its documentation in ceramics in the ...
Bussmann Rainer W, Sharon Douglas
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New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2020 Abstract In this paper, we discuss New Mochica as an example of language revival. New Mochica is definitely not the Mochica of the colonial or republican epoch of present-day Peru and the continuity of an already extinct language ...
Rita Eloranta, Angela Bartens
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The globalization of traditional medicine in northern peru: from shamanism to molecules. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean “health axis,” with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants.
Bussmann RW.
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Una nueva lista de palabras de la lengua mochica del siglo XIX
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2021 This article provides a list of 125 words of the Mochica language. Created in 1865 on the initiative of Santiago C. Montjoy, then United States consul in Lambayeque, the list was discovered in the 1970s among the dispatches of the Lambayecan consuls ...
Matthias Urban
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Typological Studies in LanguageAbstract This article provides a synthesizing discussion of different lines of evidence for the linguistic history of the Mochica language (Northern Peru). Among the topics discussed are the inference of the former geographic extension through toponymic study ...
Matthias Urban, Urban Matthias
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Language classification, language contact and Andean prehistory: The North
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2021., 2021 Abstract The northern half of the Andes—from Venezuela to Northern Peru—has seen dramatic losses of language diversity since the 16th century. Even so, the region's linguistic fabric is complex and multifaceted, and the impression of relatively low levels of diversity vis‐à‐vis Amazonia is to a perhaps considerable extent the result of different post ...
Matthias Urban
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Re-evaluating the ‘numeral classifier’ system in Mochica
Liames, 2018 Mochica, an extinct language of northern Peru, possesses an areally uncommon class of morphemes that have been variously termed quantifiers, numeral classifiers and alternative numerals.
Kate Bellamy
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Ñaimlap, the Birds, and the Sea: Viewing an Ancient Peruvian Legend through the Lens of Onomastics
Names, 2017 Among the most intriguing oral testimonies of the late pre-Hispanic cultures of the Peruvian North Coast are the legends of origin that the Spanish were still able to record.
Matthias Urban, Rita Eloranta
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The Role of Phonesthemes in Shoegaze Naming Conventions
Names, 2017 This article focuses on some observed similarities between band names, album titles, and song titles within the shoegazing subgenre of rock music, which is characterized by loud, swirling layers of distorted guitar and droning noise.
Zac Smith
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Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Poulsen VM, DeDeo S.
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