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Ukuo and Täbotü between the Piaroa of the Matavén Rainforest in the Colombian Orinoquia

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2015
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Piaroa Manioc Varietals: Hyperdiversity or Social Currency?

Human Ecology, 2008
The maintenance of exceptionally high numbers of folk varieties by the Piaroa people of the Venezuelan Amazon is considered. We cataloged 113 manioc folk varieties, their nomenclature, use and relevant characters, revealing significant insights into the role of manioc in Piaroa social life.
Serena Heckler
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Intoxicating Snuffs of the Venezuelan Piaroa Indians

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1985
(1985). Intoxicating Snuffs of the Venezuelan Piaroa Indians. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 93-103.
Laurent Rivier
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Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa

2022
AbstractThis chapter provides an in-depth description of body-part terms and their grammar in Piaroa, a language in the Sáliban family spoken in Venezuela and Colombia. Based on fieldwork data, it presents a comprehensive inventory of body-part terms as well as terms in other areas of the lexicon related to the body.
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Yopo, Ethnicity and Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva Yopo Use

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2011
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses of yopo in light of ongoing processes of social change.
Robin Rodd
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Cognation, Endogamy, and Teknonymy: The Piaroa Example

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1972
The ideal residence unit of the Piaroa, a horticultural people of the Orinoco Basin, is an endogamous cognatic kinship group. To maintain the consanguineal nature of the kinship group as a whole, individual relationships established as affinal must not be permanent to its structure.
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Tedium and creativity: the valorization of manioc cultivation and piaroa women

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2004
Through an exploration of Amazonian ethnographic material, this article challenges the idea that tasks normally associated with women are invariably considered to be less valuable than men's activities. I argue against the claims made by Rivière that manioc cultivation is devoid of creativity or differentiation. I find the process of manioc cultivation
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Indigenous Shifting Cultivation and the New Amazonia: A Piaroa Example of Economic Articulation

Human Ecology, 2007
This article argues against the idea that indigenous cultural change and knowledge loss are inevitably bonded to one another, with particular reference to agro-productive transformations. This view has not only ignored the potential of these productive systems—well documented in recent decades—but has often threatened them by promoting development ...
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Piaroa

2014
Published as part of Villarreal, Osvaldo, De Armas, Luis F. & García, Luis Fernando, 2014, A new species of Piaroa (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from Venezuela, with taxonomic notes on the genus, pp.
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