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Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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History of my Father Mogorotoɨ ‘Blue Macaw’: Words of the Ritual of the Fruits, which Come to Us as Food in Abundance, as Told by the Okaina Ethnic Group

open access: yesMundo Amazónico, 2011
Bilingual Witoto-Spanish text about the origin and stages of the yuakɨ ritual dance (ritual of the fruits), which is celebrated by the Witoto and other neighboring groups of the Caqueta-Putumayo interriverine region in the Colombo-Peruvian Amazon.
Anastasia Candre
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Plants Used by a Displaced Murui-Muinane Indigenous Community in the City of Florencia (Caquetá, Colombia)

open access: yesMundo 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   +3 more
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Language Documentation in the Americas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the last decades, the documentation of endangered languages has advanced greatly in the Americas. In this paper we survey the role that international funding programs have played in advancing documentation in this part of the world, with a particular ...
Franchetto, Bruna, Rice, Keren
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La langue originelle: A la recherche de la langue mère : la quête de la langue originelle est-elle linguistiquement correcte ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Cet article discute des thèses de Meritt Ruhlen publiées en 1994 dans son livre L'origine des langues. Notamment, il montre que Ruhlen utilise de manière erronée des raisonnements probabilistes pour affirmer l'existence de parenté entre familles de ...
Victorri, Bernard
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Comparative constructions in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper focuses on the forms and functions of various comparative constructions found in Murui, a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia (Colombia, Peru). It analyses different types of comparative construction, their forms and semantics.
Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.
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Índice general de Anales de Arqueología y Etnología años 1940-2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
En este número se publica un índice general de la revista Anales de Arqueología y Etnología desde el año 1940 hasta el 2014.Fil: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Arqueología y Etnología
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The History of Coca: The Management and Its Consequences

open access: yesMundo Amazónico, 2010
Bilingual (Witoto-Spanish) text on the origin of coca.TO LISTEN THE MP3 FILE WITH THE NARRATION, SELECT "Supplementary Files" IN THE MENU ON THE ...
Oscar Román Enokakuiodo   +1 more
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Lengua nonuya y conservación lingüística: algunas reflexiones

open access: yes, 2015
Desde los anos setenta se encendieron las alarmas frente al fenomeno de desplazamiento acelerado que conllevaba la muerte de muchas lenguas del mundo, especialmente de lenguas minoritarias con reducido numero de hablantes, primordialmente orales y ...
Isabel Victoria Romero Cruz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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