~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) Juan Castrillón, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 ~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) dramatizes how a pair of long flutes sounds like, how a Cubeo Emi-Hehenewa indigenous community of Northwestern Amazon makes it, and how community members make sense of it. The film came out of my ethnographic fieldwork...
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Amazonimations Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, 2019 Amazonimations is a collection of three animated short films (total length: 7 minutes) that were scripted, narrated and illustrated by different generations of Matses people in Peru – and produced in collaboration with an indigenous artist and a professional animator. The...
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Leadership in Lowland South America South American Indian Studies, Number 1, August 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 45.76 MB) Editor: Waud H. Kracke Series Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger Contents: Series Editor's Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger Introduction by Waud H. Kracke Factors Favoring the Development of Political Leadership in...
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Cosmology, Values, and Inter-Ethnic Contact in South America South American Indian Studies, Number 2, September 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 1.29 MB) Editor: Terence Turner Series Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger Contents: From Cosmology to Ideology: Resistance, Adaptation and Social Consciousness among the Kayapo by Terence Turner The Carib Universe...
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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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