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Peoples of the Center DOBES

Languages of the People of the Center

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 DOBES

Languages of the Upper Xingú

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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SALSA Keynote Lecture 2013 Anthony Seeger

Keynote Lecture 2013: Anthony Seeger

Keynote Lecture 2013 Speech, Music, and Place from the Grand Ole Opry to the Grander, Older, Amazon and Orinoco VIII Sesquiannual Conference, Nashville Anthony Seeger, Emeritus Professor UCLA, and Director Emeritus Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Anthony Seeger delivered the Keynote Lecture 2013, accompanied with a banjo, with the title "Speech, Music, and...

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