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Witoto Rhetoric Culture

, 2002
By describing and analyzing a witoto discourse, I intend to grasp the specific properties of a "rhetoric" at stake in a society which is distinct and different from ours.
Gasché, Jorge
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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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Plants Used by a Displaced Murui-Muinane Indigenous Community in the City of Florencia (Caquetá, Colombia)

Mundo Amazónico, 2010
Ethnobotanical studies on the displaced indigenous groups of Colombia are scarce. This research report provides a list of 54 plant species (50 genera in 32 families) used by a displaced group of Murui-Muinane (= Witoto, Uitoto, Huitoto) that lives in the
Gina Frausin, Edwin Trujillo, Marco Correa, Victor Hugo Gonzalez Betancourt   +3 more
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The spell of riddles among the Witoto

, 2013
The Witoto of the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon possess a class of sung dances known as eeikɨ, a term the Witoto themselves translate as “riddle” or “enigma” (Spanish adivinanza). By means of this type of song, the invited dancers invite the “festival owners” (rafue naanɨ) – men belonging to the patrilineage of the head of the hosts, and their ...
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Birui jiibina ruana ñaɨte: “Today the Coca Plant Speaks of Songs”. Notes for an Anthropology of Music among the Uitoto-Murui

Mundo 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
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4D Mapping: A Re-generative Approach to Organizational Development

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change
This paper examines 4D Mapping, a methodology within Social Presencing Theater (SPT), as an approach to re-generative organizational development in an era of polycrisis and systemic disruption.
Sebastian Jung, Arawana Hayashi
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Lingüistica colombiana. Familia Witoto [PDF]

, 2020
Fue el célebre explorador y etnólogo Teodoro Koch-Grünberg quien, en 1906, a raíz de un viaje de dos años (1903-1905) por los ríos Negro y Vaupés y algunos de los afluentes de éstos y después de un estudio detenido de varios vocabularios y anotaciones ...
Ortiz, Sergio Elias
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Auditoría de gestión a la Operadora Turística Witoto Cia. Ltda del cantón Francisco de Orellana, provincia de Orellana, por el periodo 2016 [PDF]

, 2017
El presente proyecto de titulación consiste en una Auditoría de Gestión a la Operadora Turística Witoto Cia.Ltda del Cantón Francisco de Orellana, Provincia de Orellana, por el periodo 2016; con el fin de mejorar los niveles de eficiencia, eficacia, y ...
Grefa Andy, Susana Alexandra
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Morphosyntactic Aspects of Ocaina: Between Genetic Features (Witotoan family) and Areal Influences

Mundo Amazónico, 2010
This paper presents some morphosyntactic features of Ocaina, a seriously endangered, underdescribed language of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon region. Ocaina has an extensive nominal classification system and number markers—dual  and plural—suffixed to ...
Doris Fagua Rincón, Frank Seifart
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