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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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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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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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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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Les jardins-vergers familiaux d'Amazonie centrale : un exemple d'utilisation de l'espace [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Analyse structurale, floristique, sanitaire et socio-culturelle de trois vergers polyspécifiques d'Amazonie centrale brésilienne (environs de Manaus).
Bahri, Sylvia   +6 more
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To Heal or to Remember: Indian Memory of the Rubber Boom and Roger Casement’s “Basket of Life” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article focuses on the voice of the Muinane group coming to grips with painful memories at the end of the twentieth century. Indians nowadaysrefer to the memories of the rubber boom as belonging to what they call “Basket of Darkness.” In contrast to
Echeverri, Juan Alvaro
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Some notes on aspects of Nonuya (Witotoan) grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
With an exception of two brief phonetic/phonological analyses of Nonuya (Witotoan), there are no other studies on the language. This talk presents the first preliminary analysis of a number of grammatical features of the language, based on the word lists
Wojtylak, Kasia
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