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Habitat et territoire yukuna

open access: yesJournal De La Societe Des Americanistes, 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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On the Syntactic Structure of Myth, or the Yukuna Invention of Speech

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, 1988
In one of his most famous articles, Levi-Strauss remarked: "From a theoretical point of view the situation [in the field of mythology] remains very much the same as it was fifty years ago, namely, chaotic. Myths are still interpreted in conflicting ways: as collective dreams, as the outcome of a kind of esthetic play, or as the basis of ritual" (Levi ...
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Finiteness in Yukuna

open access: yesCadernos De Estudos Lingüísticos
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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Hierarchical society: The Yukuna story1

Ethnos, 1990
The theory on hierarchy and value developed by Louis Dumont and his students is here tried out on the society and culture of the Yukuna Indians of Colombian Amazonas. It is shown that this society can easily by analyzed to fit the Dumontian model of a hierarchical order, but the notion that such an order can be anchored to an “ultimate value” is ...
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Generative speech. From the mythology of the Yukuna Indians

1980
This thesis, entitled "The Generative Speech of Yukuna Mythology" is an in-depth study of the mythical speech of the Yukuna Indians, a people of the Colombian Amazon. The author seeks to demonstrate how mythical speech structures their social reality, organization, and way of life.
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