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Beyond the milky way. Hallucionatory imagery of the Tukano indians
Revista de Antropologia, 1980 Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023 Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
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American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 262-282, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The anthropology of Pacific cultures spotlights social conflict as a proximate cause of suicide. Ethnographic accounts suggest that suicidal behaviors are high‐cost conflict‐resolution strategies. We investigate parent‐child conflicts and the strategies adolescents and young adults use to resolve them, using concepts from human behavioral ...
Kristen L. Syme, Edward H. Hagen
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Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 4-24, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating the two, interrogating what language is from ethnographic perspectives and extending the ...
Jan David Hauck
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 277-295, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper describes and expands on the discussions held at a symposium at the Research Center for Material Culture in the Netherlands in February 2020, which was held as part of the planning of an upcoming “Amazonia” exhibition to be curated at that institution by some of the authors.
Laura Osorio Sunnucks +4 more
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Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 159-176, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Studies of multilingual systems found in Indigenous small‐scale communities often assume that exogamous marriages are the norm in such societies and contribute to their linguistic diversity. This paper is an account of the language ideology of endogamous societies in rural highland Daghestan (Northeast Caucasus).
Nina Dobrushina
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Liames, 2021 O presente dossiê "Estudos sobre a distinção massivo-contável" da Revista LIAMES - Línguas Indígenas Americanas apresenta a investigação da distribuição sintática e interpretação de nomes contáveis e massivos em seis línguas indígenas: Parkatêjê (Macro ...
Suzi Oliveira de Lima
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N,N‐dimethyltryptamine and Amazonian ayahuasca plant medicine
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, Volume 37, Issue 3, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Objective Reports have indicated possible uses of ayahuasca for the treatment of conditions including depression, addictions, post‐traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and specific psychoneuroendocrine immune system pathologies. The article assesses potential ayahuasca and N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT) integration with contemporary healthcare ...
Edward James +3 more
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Liames, 2020 Trata-se de uma resenha de um Manual de etnobotânica recém-lançado, em português, baniwa e tukano. É discutida a abordagem proposta, à luz da Terminologia etnográfica, portanto, focada nos Estudos do Léxico de línguas ameríndias.
Juliana Nazatto Mondini +1 more
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Nomes secretos e riqueza visível: nominação no noroeste amazônico
Mana, 2002 A importância dos sistemas de nominação para a compreensão das sociedades e culturas ameríndias é hoje amplamente reconhecida, mas as informações sobre esse tópico concernentes aos povos Tukano do Noroeste Amazônico permanecem esparsas e dispersas ...
Stephen Hugh-Jones
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