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Cosmology, Worldview and Gender-based Knowledge Systems among the Tanimuka and Yukuna (Northwest Amazon) [PDF]

open access: yesWorldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 1999
AbstractIn this article gender-based knowledge systems are related to the cosmology and worldview held by hunter-gatherer men and by female swidden cultivators among the Tanimuka and Yukuna Indians of the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. The terms 'cosmology' and 'worldview' are differentiated conceptually, to distinguish the scales of cosmoview and ...
Arias, Leonardo   +12 more
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IDEOLOGÍAS LINGÜÍSTICAS Y CHAMANISMO ENTRE LOS INDÍGENAS YUKUNA-MATAPÍ

open access: yesForma y Función, 2012
La concepción del lenguaje de los hablantes de la lengua kamejeya, los yukuna-matapí del Amazonas colombiano, se estudia con base en información etnográfica y lingüística.
Camilo Alberto Robayo
doaj   +5 more sources

Schackt Jon, A people of stories in the forest of myth: the Yukuna of Miritiparaná [PDF]

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2014
Yukuna means « stories ». Yukuna consider themselves caretakers of an oral tradition « left behind by some mythical Yukuna, more “real” than them » (p. 28). Everything in the present takes its significance and potency from what is known about its origin and past. But ancestral authority is both absolute and flexible here (ibid.).
Chloé Nahum-Claudel
doaj   +4 more sources

Useful palms in three indigenous communities of La Pedrera, Colombian Amazonia

open access: yesCaldasia, 2018
We studied the knowledge and use of palms in three indigenous communities (Angostura, Curare and Yukuna) near the corregimiento of La Pedrera, Colombian Amazonia.
Mateo S. Jaimes-Roncancio   +2 more
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Habitat et territoire yukuna

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 1972
Jacopin Pierre-Yves. Habitat et territoire yukuna. In: Journal de la Societe des Americanistes. Tome 61, 1972. pp. 107-139.
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Finiteness in Yukuna

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
This paper introduces a method for describing finiteness designed for field linguists, using data from Yukuna (ISO 693-3:ycn, Glottocode: yucu1253), as outlined in Lemus Serrano's work (2020). The method involves establishing language-specific verbal and nominal prototypes, outlining the typical internal and external features of declarative verbal main
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Las prácticas lingüísticas de los hablantes de yukuna en Leticia (Amazonas, Colombia)

open access: yes, 2021
En este artículo estudiamos las estrategias discursivas de un grupo de hablantes yukuna del suroccidente colombiano cuya lengua principal es el yukuna y que usan el español en los intercambios sociales cotidianos. Siguiendo a Milroy (1992) y a Palacios Alcaine (2019) nuestro estudio adopta como marco teórico el postulado según el cual los hablantes ...
Sarmiento, Aura Lemus   +1 more
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Andiorrhinus (Turedrilus) yukuna M & Celis, 2012, sp. nov.

open access: yes, 2012
Andiorrhinus (Turedrilus) yukuna sp. nov. (Figs. 4, 5 A,B, 6, 7, Table 2) Material examined. Holotype: Clitellate specimen (CA-0015). Locality: Municipality of Belén de los Andaquíes, rural community of Agua Dulce (01º20’39.6’’N, 75º49’12’’W), altitude: 280 m above sea level. Collection date: 25 June 2008. Collectors: A. Feijoo, L. Celis.
M, Alexander Feijoo, Celis, Liliana V.
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Negation in Yukuna

open access: yes
This study provides an overview of negation in Yukuna, an Arawak language ofColombian Amazonia. Yukuna has two main negation strategies, Standard Negation (unká...-la) and non-verbal negation (unká...kalé), that perfectly map onto theverbal versus non-verbal clause distinction in the language.
Lemus Serrano, Magdalena   +1 more
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