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Vaupés Multilingualism And The Substance Of Language, Stephen Hugh-Jones
Vaupés Multilingualism And The Substance Of Language, Stephen Hugh-Jones
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
By focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western ideology of language as marking national identity and concerned with conveying meaning. This paper suggests that attention to musical, ritual, and shamanic contexts reveals multilingualism in a different light, with ritual speech acts as constitutive of social groups, names as vehicles of reproduction, and breath as a substance-like bodily element and source of vitality. The more esoteric, rhetorical, musical, or visual ornamentation is given to breath, …
The Historical And Linguistic Identity Of The Remos, Łukasz Krokoszyński, David W. Fleck
The Historical And Linguistic Identity Of The Remos, Łukasz Krokoszyński, David W. Fleck
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Amazonian Quichua In The Western Amazon Regional Interaction Sphere, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Amazonian Quichua In The Western Amazon Regional Interaction Sphere, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
From “Acculturated Indians” To “Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples, Michael Uzendoski, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
From “Acculturated Indians” To “Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples, Michael Uzendoski, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
The Languages Of Amazonia, Patience Epps, Andrés Pablo Salanova
The Languages Of Amazonia, Patience Epps, Andrés Pablo Salanova
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès
Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.