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Taxonomic Revision of the Catostemma Clade (Malvaceae/Bombacoideae/Adansonieae). [PDF]

open access: yesPlants (Basel)
Ferreira CDM   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) of the world. [PDF]

open access: yesParasit Vectors
Galati EAB   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Elusive Verbal Classifiers in ‘Witoto’

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter focuses on forms and functions of verbal classifiers in Murui and Mɨka, two closely related language varieties of the ‘Witoto’ dialect continuum from the Witotoan language family spoken in Northwest Amazonia. Murui and Mɨka verbal classifiers are used to refer to a previously mentioned referent or to re-introduce the referent into the ...
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak   +1 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Ecological Aspects of Swidden Cultivation Among the Andoke and Witoto Indians of the Colombian Amazon

Human Ecology, 1987
The investigation of crop and soil-crop conditions among Andoke and Witoto cultivators in southeast Colombia is used as a basis for assessing Geertz' (1963) model of swidden cultivation. In this respect, the extent to which maniocdominated swiddens in the study area “simulate” the structure and composition of the forest climax community is questioned ...
Michael J Eden
exaly   +2 more sources

Witoto Vowel Clusters

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1956
1 Witoto is spoken by 80 or more families of Indians inhabiting the tributary rivers north of the Amazon from Iquitos, Peru, to the Colombian border and is divided into three major dialects which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Practically all the Witoto people of Peru have been transplanted from their original habitat between the ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Indigenous Knowledges and Power in Friction With Human Rights and Development Discourses : The Case of the Witoto Ethnic Safeguarding Plan in the Colombian Amazon

2014
This dissertation analyzes the intercultural negotiations of the Amazonian multi-ethnic group of the People of the Centre with the universal discourses of human rights and development promoted by the Colombian State. I focus on the Leticia Witoto Ethnic Safeguarding Plan (ESP), which is one of the 73 plans formulated and implemented by the Colombian ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Traversing Language Barriers: ‘Witoto’ Signal Drums From Northwest Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language and Culture, 2019
The 'Witoto' people from Northwest Amazonia practised long distance drum communication, used for relying messages among their villages. The messages were encoded on a pair of hollowed-out wooden drums, and appear to have been 'drummed codes', with only ...
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak
exaly   +2 more sources

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