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Memory and resilience among Uitoto women: closed baskets and gentle words to invoke the pain of the Colombian Amazon

open access: yesLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2017
ABSTRACTThis article aims to connect the remembrance of historical events of extreme violence against indigenous Amazon populations with the course of interdisciplinary reflection on trauma and historical memory. It centers its analysis on the narratives and experiences of a group of indigenous Uitoto women whose ancestors were enslaved under the ...
Angela Santamariá
exaly   +2 more sources

The first love of a young man Salt and sexual education among the Uitoto Indians of Lowland Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The Uitoto and other neighbouring groups from the Colombo-Peruvian Amazon used not to consume mineral salt ^ sodium salt, NaCl. They have learned to eat it since the middle of the twentieth century following their incorporation into market relations through the rubber industry and, latterly, Catholic Mission education and permanent contact with non ...
exaly   +3 more sources

Finnegans is the Tolstoy of the Uitoto

open access: yesMundo Amazónico
The Word, as the creative principle of life, is a concept found in many cultures, from the Hebraic to the Uitotos (or Murui) of the Colombian Amazon. The author finds parallels between the immersion of Joyce´s Finnegans Wake in the Word as the key to ...
Jimmy Weiskopf
doaj   +2 more sources

NARRATIVAS DE VIOLENCIA Y TRANSFORMACIÓN DE MUJERES INDÍGENAS UITOTO EN BOGOTÁ

open access: yesRevista Abya Yala, 2018
Este artículo examina narrativas sobre experiencias de violencia de mujeres uitoto que migraron para Bogotá de la región del Caquetá-Putumayo en Colombia.
Juana Valentina Nieto Moreno   +1 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Religión y mitología de los uitotos

open access: yesForma y Función, 1995
Recopilación y análisis de textos y etnografía uitoto hecha por el gran arqueólogo y etnógrafo prusiano, editada originalmente, en alemán (1921-1923), esta primera edición castellana se debe a una de las investigaciones del Departamento de Lingüística de
Camilo Alberto Robayo Romero
doaj   +4 more sources

Self-Perception of Identity Unity Amid Diversity in A Murui/Uitoto Myth

open access: yesJournal of Posthumanism
The main objective of this article is to present the relationship among identity, language and genetics from a premise that considers the point of view of the participating group. The Murui/Uitoto indigenous people (in the Colombian Amazon) have had a self-perception of identity diversity, despite different linguistic groups and dialectal variations ...
Flor Angela Buitrago Escobar   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Oralidad y territorio en la cultura Uitoto

open access: yesForma y Función, 1997
En este escrito se destaca la importancia de la historia oral como fuente de información para comprender los orígenes de la toponimia. Concretamente, se relata el mito nofikuaí komuiyagaí, la historia uitota de la creación de los raudales, en la cual se ...
Becerra Bidïgïma Eudocio   +1 more
doaj   +4 more sources

J+a+mak+ Rafue Uitoto Com+n+ : cambio cultural en la comunidad indígena Uitoto del corregimiento de Puerto Alegría, Amazonas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
El cambio cultural que se ha dado en la comunidad indígena del corregimiento de Puerto Alegría, Amazonas. En la que se identifican los elementos culturales considerados propios por los Uitoto y cuales han sido las causas que ellos asocian con ese proceso
Cotte Monane, Mally Esther
core   +3 more sources

Birui jiibina ruana ñaɨte: “Today the Coca Plant Speaks of Songs”. Notes for an Anthropology of Music among the Uitoto-Murui

open access: yesMundo Amazónico, 2010
This work proposes an ethnographic approach to the musical universe –in particular the practice of chanting– of the indigenous group usually known as Uitoto (= Huitoto, Witoto), examining the case of one of its subgroups, the Murui from the Caraparana ...
Edmundo Marcelo Pereira, Hermes Ortiz
doaj   +4 more sources

Los Salados. Paisajes sagrados para los Tikuna y Uitoto en el trapecio amazónico colombiano [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cada lugar geográfico constituye la base de un paisaje, y cada sociedad percibe, valora y construye de manera diferente su propio paisaje. El trapecio amazónico colombiano ofrece una oportunidad única para estudiar la materialización biofísica y social ...
Aponte-García, Gloria   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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