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The slash-and-burn agriculture: a system in transformation [PDF]
, 2008 Slash-and-burn agriculture has been practiced for thousands of years in the forests around the world, especially in the tropics, where it provides for the livelihood of countless poor rural populations.
Cristina Adams +2 more
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Who is Amazonia? The ‘salt of the matter’ for indigenous sustainability
Environmental Research Letters, 2013 The recent article ‘Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto environmental knowledge as sexual education’ (Echeverri and Román-Jitdutjaãno 2013 Environ. Res. Lett.
Michael Heckenberger
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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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Exploring Music in a Globalized World [PDF]
, 2017 Beyond the simple fact that many people enjoy music, as a social act music is also related to a wide range of emotions, associations, politics, and identifications that draw people to making, playing, and listening to music.
Hollington, Andrea +4 more
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Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving [PDF]
, 2014 Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. The long debated problem of representation in Amerindian art discussed by Boas, Kroeber and Lévi-Strauss is reconsidered in this article through an ethnographic ...
Fortis, Paolo
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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.
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El repte d'inculturar la fe en les missions "ad gentes" dels caputxins catalans (ss. XVII-XX) [PDF]
, 2011 L’autor ofereix un estudi dels trets més fonamentals de la metodologia, reptes i dificultats de l’evangelització duta a terme pels missioners caputxins en terres d’ultramar, des del llunyà segle XVII fins a la renovació suscitada pel Concili Vaticà II ...
Serra de Manresa, Valentí
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Languoid, Doculect, and Glossonym: Formalizing the Notion 'Language' [PDF]
, 2013 It is perfectly reasonable for laypeople and non-linguistic scholars to use names for languages without reflecting on the proper definition of the objects referred to by these names.
Cysouw, Michael, Good, Jeff
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L'habitat witoto : « progrès » et tradition
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 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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Hard-to-Find Words in Web 3 (T-Z) [PDF]
, 1975 List of hard to find ...
Beaman, Ralph G.
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