Traversing language barriers: 'Witoto' signal drums from Northwest Amazonia [PDF]
, 2019 The 'Witoto' people from Northwest Amazonia practised long distance drum communication, used for relying messages among their villages. The messages were encoded on a pair of hollowed-out wooden drums, and appear to have been 'drummed codes', with only ...
Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.
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Diagnóstico sociolingüístico de La Chorrera
Forma y Función, 2000 La Chorrera es un corregimiento ubicado a orillas del río Igara-Paraná en el departamento del Amazonas. El cabildo Centro Chorrera, sitio específico del trabajo de campo al que nos referiremos aquí, es la capital del corregimiento.
Luz Libia Rey G.
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Finding the Taste of Knowledge: The Orphan in Indigenous Epistemologies [PDF]
, 2015 Following the suggestions of my indigenous consultants, that to better understand their theories of knowledge one has to start from myth, I take here their myth, “The origin of education” as the starting point for analyzing the alchemical processes of ...
Micarelli, Giovanna
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Retos institucionales para la implementación de la ley de víctimas y de restitución de tierras en el Departamento del Putumayo: balance y perspectivas [PDF]
, 2017 104 páginas y anexosIn the framework of the law on victims and land restitution (Act 1448 of 2011) the investigation shows the difficulties in the implementation of this public policy in the department of Putumayo, taking into account the proposed model ...
Belnavis Barreiro, Fabián Alonso
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Language Documentation in the Americas [PDF]
, 2014 In the last decades, the documentation of endangered languages has advanced greatly in the Americas. In this paper we survey the role that international funding programs have played in advancing documentation in this part of the world, with a particular ...
Franchetto, Bruna, Rice, Keren
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Professor Using NEH Summer Stipend for Language Study [PDF]
, 2022 Stephen Fafulas studying indigenous communities along the Peruvian ...
Smith, Edwin B.
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Morphosyntactic Aspects of Ocaina: Between Genetic Features (Witotoan family) and Areal Influences
Mundo Amazónico, 2010 This paper presents some morphosyntactic features of Ocaina, a seriously endangered, underdescribed language of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon region. Ocaina has an extensive nominal classification system and number markers—dual and plural—suffixed to ...
Doris Fagua Rincón, Frank Seifart
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Talking to the spirits: A jungle-at-night register of the Murui people from the Northwest Amazon [PDF]
, 2019 The jungle, especially at night, is seen by the Murui as extremely dangerous and full of threats. At night, when one is away from the safety of their own settlements (e.g. when walking in the forest or paddling on the river), it is imperative to employ a
Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.
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