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Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto environmental knowledge as sexual education
Environmental Research Letters, 2013 This letter addresses the indigenous discourse on a set of plant species used by the Witoto Indians of Northwest Amazonia to extract ash or vegetable salt, obtained from the combustion of the tissues of vegetable species, filtering of the ashes, and ...
Juan Alvaro Echeverri
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Bibliografía descriptiva del grupo lingüístico Witoto: Seminario de lingüística aborigen [PDF]
Forma y Función, 1984 Cálculos de comienzos de nuestro siglo estimaron la población witota entre 20 a 25.000 personas. Vino luego el genocidio de las compañias caucheras, cometido también contra otras etnias amazónicas.
Función Forma y
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Witoto ash salts from the Amazon [PDF]
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2011 This article presents the results of an anthropological and ethnobotanical study of the vegetable salts used by the Witoto Indians of the Amazon. It thoroughly documents the species used, the processing of the salts, their chemical composition and their anthropological, nutritional and medicinal relevance.Salts from 57 plant species known to the Witoto
Juan Alvaro Echeverri
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Chemical composition, anti-hypertensive properties, and sensory attributes of salt extracted from ash of Hygrophilia schulli. [PDF]
Food Sci NutrThe aim of the study was to investigate the mineral content and anti‐hypertensive properties. The extracted salt was rich in potassium, deficient in sodium from the analyzed macrominerals, and rich in iron and zinc from microminerals. Abstract The traditional usage of salt taken from vegetables for the treatment of blood pressure and diabetes is seen ...
Mengistu D, Getachew P.
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«Adjetividad» en ocaina (familia Witoto, Amazonia noroccidental): adverbios, nombres y un adjetivo
Forma y Función, 2019 A través de la descripción del ocaina exploramos fenómenos a menudo confundidos con la clase léxica adjetival, que remitirían más bien a un concepto amplio que se ha llamado «adjetividad» o a los que simplemente debería aludirse con denominaciones ...
Doris Fagua Rincón
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Fruits for Animals: Hunting Avoidance Speech Style in Murui (Witoto, Northwest Amazonia) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2015 This paper is describes the hunting avoidance speech style of the Murui, a Witoto people from southern Colombia and northern Peru. Murui men employ a special vocabulary used when hunting bigger game. It is a system of lexical substitution employed to "deceive" the animal spirits by avoidance of the utterance of the animals' names.
Katarzyna I Wojtylak
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Liames, 2015 Bora and Muinane are two neighboring, relatively closely related languages spoken in the North-West Amazon. Whether these two languages can be shown to be genealogically related to other languages is still debated.
Frank Seifart, Juan Alvaro Echeverri
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L'habitat witoto : « progrès » et tradition
Journal De La Societe Des Americanistes, 1972 Gasche Jurg. L'habitat witoto : « progres » et tradition. In: Journal de la Societe des Americanistes. Tome 61, 1972. pp. 177-214.
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Indigenous knowledges and power in friction with human rights and development discourses : the case of the Witoto Ethnic Safeguarding Plan in the Colombian Amazon [PDF]
, 2014 This dissertation analyzes the intercultural negotiations of the Amazonian multi-ethnic group of the People of the Centre with the universal discourses of human rights and development promoted by the Colombian State. I focus on the Leticia Witoto Ethnic Safeguarding Plan (ESP), which is one of the 73 plans formulated and implemented by the Colombian ...
Herrera Arango, Alvaro Diego H.
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