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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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Language contact in Caquetá and Putumayo river basins in Northwest Amazonia [PDF]

, 2018
The area between the Caquetá and Putumayo (C-P) River Basins, spanning southern Colombia and northern Peru, is loosely defined in the literature as the ‘People of the Centre cultural complex’ (Echeverri, 1997). It consists of eight ethnolinguistic groups
Wojtylak, Kasia
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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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Kirigaiai:Kirigaiai: los géneros poéticos de la cultura Minika

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2012
In this essay I present a theory about the poetic genres of the Minika, an indigenous culture located on the river Kotue (Igaraparaná) in Colombia. I examine in particular the concept of kirigai (basket), followed by a review of the specialist literature.
Selnich Vivas Hurtado
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An Annotated Bibliography of Survey and Analysis Methods for Study of Indigenous Agroforestry Systems [PDF]

, 1993
The issues surrounding land use in tropical countries have led to many studies of indigenous traditional land uses. In recent years, those agricultural systems incorporating trees (termed agroforestry) have been subjected to particular scrutiny. Students
Fownes, James H., Suchocki, Tracy J.
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Development Projects for Women in the Indigenous Community “El Once”: An Analysis Based on Sharing and Difference

Mundo Amazónico, 2010
This article reflects on the representations of communal work and collective property held by promoters of income-generating projects in the Witoto community “El Once”, near Leticia in the Colombian Amazon.
Juana Valentina Nieto
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Finding the Taste of Knowledge: The Orphan in Indigenous Epistemologies [PDF]

, 2015
Following the suggestions of my indigenous consultants, that to better understand their theories of knowledge one has to start from myth, I take here their myth, “The origin of education” as the starting point for analyzing the alchemical processes of ...
Micarelli, Giovanna
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Tɨnuango moniya uai: La palabra de abundancia de Anastasia Candre Yamacuri

Mundo Amazónico, 2014
Este artículo desarrolla el concepto moniya uai de tres maneras: como crítica a la cultura hegemónica, como método de investigación y como proceso creativo. Creemos que estas tres fases se pueden encontrar en la obra poética y pictórica de la escritora e
Selnich Vivas Hurtado
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Eating habits, anthropometry, lifestyle, and hypertension of a group of non-village indigenous women in Amazon, Brazil. [PDF]

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992), 2023
Rodrigues KPL, Valadares A, Pereira HA, Schiave Q, Silva Filho AL.   +4 more
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