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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Understanding the Origin Myth: the unknowns of the linguistic fieldwork among the 'Witoto' peoples from Northwest Amazonia [PDF]
, 2017 This paper focuses on the Origin Myth of the Murui, a Witotoan group from Northwest ...
Wojtylak, Kasia
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Two Cultural Myths from the Upper Amazon: Tales of a Humanized World
Mundo Amazónico, 2011 Despite cultural, linguistic and geographic differences, the Witoto and Tikuna indigenous peoples share mythical episodes, which happen to be at the base of their everyday activities and their rituals of relationship with the forest and its masters. This
Wilson Eduardo Gómez Pulgarin
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Epidemiology of COVID-19 Among Indigenous Populations in Brazil. [PDF]
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities, 2022 da Silva MG +8 more
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Snakebite envenomations and access to treatment in communities of two indigenous areas of the Western Brazilian Amazon: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2023 de Farias AS +15 more
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The social lives of isolates (and small language families): the case of the Northwest Amazon. [PDF]
Interface Focus, 2023 Van Gijn R +11 more
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Bora loans in Resígaro: Massive morphological and little lexical borrowing in a moribund Arawakan language [PDF]
, 2011 This study analyzes the influence of Bora (Boran) on Resígaro (Arawakan), two languages of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon region, using a newly discovered Resígaro wordlist from the 1930s (Manuel María de Mataró no date), another wordlist from the late ...
Seifart, F.
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Building an explanatory model for snakebite envenoming care in the Brazilian Amazon from the indigenous caregivers' perspective. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2023 de Farias AS +11 more
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Alternations in Murui: A morphological approach [PDF]
, 2017 Murui is a Witotoan language spoken in Colombia and Peru. This thesis focuses on alternations of voiced and voiceless alveolar and velar stops in Murui that occur at some morpheme boundaries in verbs. The alternations of the voiced and voiceless alveolar
Havlicek, Amy
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