People of the Center Since 2004 the DoBeS (Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen) program supports the project “Documenting the languages of the People of the Center”, which was housed from 2004-2007 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and from 2007-2009 at the Universität Regensburg. The partner organization in Peru is...
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Upper Xingú We gather here three DoBeS projects working on three genetically unrelated languages, belonging to the cultural system of the Upper Xingú area: Kuikuru (Carib), Trumai (isolate), and Aweti (Tupi). The aims of the co-operation among these DoBeS Projects are the organization of comparable corpora...
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Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) AILLA, the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, gathers recordings, texts, narratives, chants, oratory, conversations, songs, and other multimedia materials in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America. This archive includes teaching materials for bilingual...
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Cubeo Hehenewa and Tukanoans of the Upper Uaupes River This site documents the languages of the Cubeo Hehenewa and other Tukanoans of the Upper Uaupés River by presenting twelve episodes of Tataroko, a program broadcasted by YURUPARI ESTEREO 104.3 FM, a grassroots radio station located in...
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SALSA Scholarship The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) is an international society, bringing together specialists who live in Latin America, Europe, North America, and elsewhere. In these pages, you can consult several sources resulting from the active scholarship of the SALSA members. The Bennington...
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AmaSonic AmaSonic is a meeting-point for accessing links of interest, news and events about sound, spoken word and musical practices in Lowland South America. This section presents a glance into the work of SALSA members who have studied vocal, sonic, aural and performative interactions, and introduces...
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