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Access barriers and facilitators to implement mass drugs administration strategies for eliminating trachoma and geohelminthiasis in the department of Amazonas, Colombia. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Trujillo-Trujillo J   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Edmundo Pereira. Um povo sábio, um povo aconselhado - Ritual e política entre os Huitoto-Murui

open access: yesVibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013
Pedro Musalem Nazar
doaj  

Multifaceted body parts in Murui

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2020
Abstract Based on the firsthand data from Murui, a Witotoan language spoken in the Northwest Amazon, the study demonstrates how the body part terms ‘back’, ‘face’, ‘mouth, and ‘body’ grammaticalized into the domains covering spatial orientation, time, comparison, counting, and the reflexive. Murui body part nouns did not grammaticalize in isolation; to
Katarzyna I Wojtylak
exaly   +3 more sources

Nominalizations in Murui (Witotoan)

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2018
AbstractThis paper discusses forms, types, and functions of nominalizations in Murui, a Witotoan language spoken in Colombia and Peru. It is concerned with those nominalizations that involve classifiers and those that do not (agentive S/A nominalizations and event nominalizations).
Katarzyna I Wojtylak
exaly   +3 more sources

Links between language and society among the Murui of north-west Amazonia

2021
Murui, a Witototan language spoken in southern Colombia and northern Peru, has at its disposal a number of linguistic features that mirror the structure of the Murui society, the Murui belief system, the environment the Murui people live in, and their means of subsistence. Demonstrable associations between linguistic and non-linguistic features (the so-
exaly   +3 more sources

The phonological and grammatical status of Murui ‘word’

2020
Different sorts of phonological and grammatical criteria can be used to identify wordhood in Murui, a Witotoan language from Northwest Amazonia. A phonological word is determined on entirely phonological principles. Its key indicators include prosody (stress) and segmental phonology (vowel length).
exaly   +3 more sources

Escaping from Casa Arana: The Murui-Muina Nation after the Amazon Rubber Boom

Ethnohistory
Abstract The Amazon rubber boom (1850–1930) devastated Indigenous nations that had remained for centuries at the borders of European empires and the nation-states that replaced them in South America. The arrival of the Peruvian rubber company Casa Arana to the Igaraparaná and Caraparaná Rivers in 1899 marked the conquest and colonization
OSCAR Aponte
exaly   +2 more sources

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