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The Prosodic Word in Cushillococha Ticuna
Introduction Background Stress on nouns Stress on verbs Conclusions Acknowledgements References . The Prosodic Word in Cushillococha Ticuna Amalia Skilton University of California, Berkeley Symposium on Amazonian Languages II April 8, 2017 . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Introduction Background Stress on nouns Stress on verbs Conclusions Acknowledgements References . Introduction (North)western Amazonia is a tone hotspot, but its tone systems are relatively small. No more than two underlying tone heights -- at most /H, L, Ø/ (Hyman 2010) No more than three surface tone heights (Gomez-Imbert 2001) Low density of tones: not the case that every syllable comes pre-specified for tone . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Introduction Background Stress on nouns Stress on verbs Conclusions Acknowledgements References . Introduction Tone and stress are closely related in many of languages of western Amazonia: Tone is privative and licensed by stress Hup (Epps 2005:123, 2008) Some tones are lexical, others are metrical Iquito (Michael 2011) Kashibo-Kakataibo (Zariquiey Biondi 2011) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Introduction Background Stress on nouns Stress on verbs Conclusions Acknowledgements References . Stress and tone in Cushillococha Ticuna Ticuna is a major outlier among Amazonian tone languages (Anderson 1959; Montes 1995; Soares 2000). More tone heights and contours than any other Amazonian language Maximally high tone density I argue that in addition -
Peoples in the Brazilian Amazonia Indian Lands
Brazilian Demographic Censuses and the “Indians”: difficulties in identifying and counting. Marta Maria Azevedo Researcher for the Instituto Socioambiental – ISA; and visiting researcher of the Núcleo de Estudos em População – NEPO / of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP PEOPLES IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA INDIAN LANDS source: Programa Brasil Socioambiental - ISA At the present moment there are in Brazil 184 native language- UF* POVO POP.** ANO*** LÍNG./TRON.**** OUTROS NOMES***** Case studies made by anthropologists register the vital events of a RO Aikanã 175 1995 Aikanã Aikaná, Massaká, Tubarão RO Ajuru 38 1990 Tupari speaking peoples and around 30 who identify themselves as “Indians”, RO Akunsu 7 1998 ? Akunt'su certain population during a large time period, which allows us to make RO Amondawa 80 2000 Tupi-Gurarani RO Arara 184 2000 Ramarama Karo even though they are Portuguese speaking. Two-hundred and sixteen RO Arikapu 2 1999 Jaboti Aricapu a few analyses about their populational dynamics. Such is the case, for RO Arikem ? ? Arikem Ariken peoples live in ‘Indian Territories’, either demarcated or in the RO Aruá 6 1997 Tupi-Mondé instance, of the work about the Araweté, made by Eduardo Viveiros de RO Cassupá ? ? Português RO/MT Cinta Larga 643 1993 Tupi-Mondé Matétamãe process of demarcation, and also in urban areas in the different RO Columbiara ? ? ? Corumbiara Castro. In his book (Araweté: o povo do Ipixuna – CEDI, 1992) there is an RO Gavião 436 2000 Tupi-Mondé Digüt RO Jaboti 67 1990 Jaboti regions of Brazil. The lands of some 30 groups extend across national RO Kanoe 84 1997 Kanoe Canoe appendix with the populational data registered by others, since the first RO Karipuna 20 2000 Tupi-Gurarani Caripuna RO Karitiana 360 2000 Arikem Caritiana burder, for ex.: 8,500 Ticuna live in Peru and Colombia while 32,000 RO Kwazá 25 1998 Língua isolada Coaiá, Koaiá contact with this people in 1976. -
Cercanía Lingüística Entre Las Lenguas Tucano Del Pirá-Paraná: Aspectos Gramaticales
Cercanía lingüística entre las lenguas tucano del pirá-paraná: aspectos gramaticales POR OLGA ARDILA Departamento de Lingüística UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA 1 A fin de definir y precisar el amplio panorama lingüís- tico de las lenguas Tucano del Vaupés se ha venido lle- vando a cabo un estudio comparativo que permita definir y precisar las relaciones de afinidad entre dichas lenguas y sus características comunes. El presente artículo analiza la cercanía lingüística a nivel gramatical existente entre las lenguas tatuyo, carapana, barasana y macuna habla- das en las inmediaciones del río Pirá-Paraná y caños ad- yacentes. Los resultados muestran lo mismo que a nivel fonológico y lexical, un estrecho nivel de cercanía lin- güística entre las cuatro variedades comparadas, siendo mayor la afinidad entre las varíedades tatuyo-carapana y barasana-macuna. Palabras claves: Lingüística aborigen, comparatísmo, lenguas Tu- cano, Amazonas. El actual departamento del Vaupés se encuentra habitado en su mayor parte por grupos pertenecientes a la sub-familia lingüística Tucano- Oriental. Los hablantes de dicha sub-familia se localizan en los alrededores de los ríos Vaupés, Papurí, Tiquié, Pirá-Paraná y Apaporis, Constituyen 1 La presente investigación se lleva a cabo gracias a la financiación de Colcien- cias y la Universidad Nacional. FORMA Y FUNCION 9 (1996), páginas 81-101. 0 Departamento de Lingüística, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Santafé de Bogotá. 6 82 OLGA ARDILA la sub-familia Tucano-Oriental las variedades tucano, guanano, piratapu- yo, bará, tuyuca, yurutí, pisamira, desano, siriano, cubeo, tanimuca, tatuyo, carapana, barasana y macuna. En las inmediaciones del río Pirá-Paraná y caños adyacentes se encuentran localizados los hablantes de las lenguas tatuyo, carapana, barasana y macuna (Ardila, 1993). -
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Pan-Amazon Region
OAS/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 176 29 September 2019 Original: Spanish INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Situation of Human Rights of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Pan-Amazon Region 2019 iachr.org OAS Cataloging-in-Publication Data Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Situation of human rights of the indigenous and tribal peoples of the Pan-Amazon region : Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on September 29, 2019. p. ; cm. (OAS. Official records ; OEA/Ser.L/V/II) ISBN 978-0-8270-6931-2 1. Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--Amazon River Region. 2. Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.--Amazon River Region. 3. Human rights--Amazon River Region. I. Title. II. Series. OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc.176/19 INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Members Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño Joel Hernández García Antonia Urrejola Margarette May Macaulay Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva Flávia Piovesan Executive Secretary Paulo Abrão Assistant Executive Secretary for Monitoring, Promotion and Technical Cooperation María Claudia Pulido Assistant Executive Secretary for the Case, Petition and Precautionary Measure System Marisol Blanchard a.i. Chief of Staff of the Executive Secretariat of the IACHR Fernanda Dos Anjos In collaboration with: Soledad García Muñoz, Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (ESCER) Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on September 29, 2019 INDEX EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 11 INTRODUCTION 19 CHAPTER 1 | INTER-AMERICAN STANDARDS ON INDIGENOUS AND TRIBAL PEOPLES APPLICABLE TO THE PAN-AMAZON REGION 27 A. Inter-American Standards Applicable to Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in the Pan-Amazon Region 29 1. -
Tone, Stress, and Their Interactions in Cushillococha Ticuna Abstract
Tone, stress, and their interactions in Cushillococha Ticuna Abstract: Ticuna (ISO: tca; Peru, Colombia, Brazil) displays a larger tone inventory -- five level tones -- and greater tone density than any other Indigenous American language outside Oto- Manguean. Based on recent fieldwork, this article argues that, in addition to these tone properties, the Cushillococha variety of Ticuna also displays stress. Stress licenses additional tonal and segmental contrasts; conditions many phonological processes; and plays a central role in grammatical tone processes marking clause type. Empirically, these findings expand our understanding of word prosody in Amazonian languages. Theoretically, they challenge current models of stress-conditioned phonology and of grammatical tone. Keywords: Tone; Stress; Stress-Conditioned Phonology; Amazonian Languages Word Count (includes tables and examples; excludes abstract and references): 14,432 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the word-prosodic system of Ticuna – a language isolate spoken in the northwestern Amazon Basin – through data gathered in recent fieldwork in Cushillococha, Peru. The study makes two primary contributions. First, I provide evidence that the Cushillococha variety of Ticuna displays five underlying level tones, with eight surface tones (including contours) on monosyllables. My analysis of the tone inventory supports previous analyses by L. Anderson (1959) and D. Anderson (1962), and opposes Montes Rodriguez’ (1995, 2004) argument for only three level tones. This finding is typologically consequential because it establishes Ticuna as the only American language, outside the Oto-Manguean family, to display more than three underlying tones (Hyman 2010). Second, I argue that in addition to tone, the Cushillococha variety of Ticuna also displays fixed stem-initial stress. -
Black Box Approaches to Genealogical Classification and Their Shortcomings Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran
Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran 1. Introduction In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical lin- guistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the genealogical related- ness of languages. More recent quantitative approaches attempt to automate this process, either by developing computational tools that complement the comparative method (Steiner et al. 2010) or by applying fully automatized methods that take into account very limited or no linguistic knowledge, e.g. the Levenshtein approach. The Levenshtein method has been extensively used in dialectometry to measure the distances between various dialects (Kessler 1995; Heeringa 2004; Nerbonne 1996). It has also been frequently used to analyze the relatedness between languages, such as Indo-European (Serva and Petroni 2008; Blanchard et al. 2010), Austronesian (Petroni and Serva 2008), and a very large sample of 3002 languages (Holman 2010). In this paper we will examine the performance of the Levenshtein distance against n-gram models and a zipping approach by applying these methods to the same set of language data. The success of the Levenshtein method is typically evaluated by visu- ally inspecting and comparing the obtained genealogical divisions against already well-established groupings found in the linguistics literature. It has been shown that the Levenshtein method is successful in recovering main languages groups, which for example in the case of Indo-European language family, means that it is able to correctly classify languages into Germanic, Slavic or Romance groups. -
Cubeo Hehenawa Religious Thought. Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People Robin M
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America ISSN: 2572-3626 (online) Volume 6 | Issue 1 Article 9 June 2008 Cubeo Hehenawa Religious Thought. Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People Robin M. Wright University of Florida, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti Part of the Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Wright, Robin M. (2008). "Cubeo Hehenawa Religious Thought. Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People," Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol6/iss1/9 This Reviews is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tipití (2008) 6(1-2):123–153 © 2008 SALSA 123 ISSN 1545-4703 Printed in USA BOOK REVIEWS Cubeo Hehenawa Religious Thought. Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People. Irving Goldman. Edited by Peter J. Wilson. Afterword by Stephen Hugh-Jones. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xlv + 438 pp., glossary, references, index. $82 (cloth). ISBN 0-231-13021-X. [http://cup.columbia.edu] ROBIN M. WRIGHT University of Florida Generations of anthropology students have been introduced to the discipline through Irving Goldman’s classic The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon. Considered a model of Boasian ethnography, the monograph was also very much ahead of its time and has inspired professional anthropologists for its interpretation of the ethos, “style,” or what Joanna Overing called the “aesthetics” of indigenous social life. -
Documenting and Disseminating Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in Brazil
Documenting and Disseminating Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in Brazil Final Report Volume I: Survey Prepared for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) by Antonio A. Arantes, PhD The views expressed in this Survey are those of the author, and not necessarily those of the WIPO Secretariat or its Member States. The Survey is current at the time of preparation of the initial draft (November 2009). WIPO, Documenting and Disseminating Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in Brazil – Volume I – Survey - Page 2 - © Copyright World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009 Certain rights reserved. WIPO authorizes the partial reproduction, translation and dissemination of this survey for non-commercial and non-profit scientific, educational or research purposes, provided that WIPO, the survey and the author are properly identified and acknowledged. Permission to substantially reproduce, disseminate and/or translate this survey, or compile or create derivative works therefrom, in any form, whether for commercial/for profit or non-profit purposes, must be requested in writing. For this purpose, WIPO may be contacted at [email protected] For any comments/requests on or corrections/additions to this work, please contact WIPO at [email protected] WIPO, Documenting and Disseminating Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in Brazil – Volume I – Survey - Page 3 - DOCUMENTING AND DISSEMINATING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS IN BRAZIL Volume 1: Survey. Volume 2: Brazilian intellectual property -
Familiarization and Pets As Art(Ifacts) in Amazonia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, Vol
VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology E-ISSN: 1809-4341 [email protected] Associação Brasileira de Antropologia Brasil Ferreira Vander Velden, Felipe Village ornaments: familiarization and pets as art(ifacts) in Amazonia VIBRANT - Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, vol. 13, núm. 2, 2016, pp. 58-77 Associação Brasileira de Antropologia Brasília, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=406949383005 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Village ornaments: familiarization and pets as art(ifacts) in Amazonia 1 Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden Department of Social Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos/SP, Brazil. Abstract The objective of this article is to discuss some reasons the Karitiana (Rondônia, Brazil) evoke to explain their ever-present desire to maintain familiarized or domesticated animals in their villages. Based on the ethnography of the relationships among the Karitiana and these animals, this paper enters into DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412016v13n2p058dialogue with the hypotheses formulated to explore the Amazonian people’s fondness for the company of non-human species. It also provides insights for rethinking these debates, advocating that Indians are particularly looking for beauty represented by the diversity of animals and by the arts of domestication, just like the aesthetics of conviviality as proposed by Joanna Overing. This aesthetic dimension of human-animal relations seems to be overlooked by theorists of domestication or familiarization because they consider these phenomena to be more techniques or technologies than arts. -
Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia: the Inspiring Career of Stephen Hugh-Jones
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America ISSN: 2572-3626 (online) Volume 16 Issue 2 Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia Article 1 12-15-2019 Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia: The Inspiring Career of Stephen Hugh-Jones Chloe Nahum-Claudel London School of Economic and Political Science, [email protected] Olivier Allard EHESS, Paris, [email protected] Cover Page Footnote: We would like to thank Stephen for his receptiveness to this project, which required him to write one entirely original paper and to polish or revise others. Additionally, we would like to thank all the participants in the 2016 workshop held in King's College, Cambridge and in particular Ann- Christine Taylor and Caroline Humphrey for allowing us to use comments delivered at that event to inspire our writing of this Introduction. Finally, thanks go to King's and Pembroke College Cambridge, The Cambridge Humanities Research Grant's Scheme, the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale and the Simon Bolivar Fund for funding the event that stimulated this Special Issue. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti Part of the Folklore Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Nature and Society Relations Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Nahum-Claudel, Chloe and Allard, Olivier (2019). "Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia: The Inspiring Career of Stephen Hugh-Jones," Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 16: Iss. 2, Article 1, 1-19. Available at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol16/iss2/1 This Introduction is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. -
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Steps Towards a Dialogue on Objects
I. Introduction English translation from: Michael Kraus / Ernst Halbmayer / Ingrid Kummels (eds.) 2018 Objetos como testigos del contacto cultural. Perspectivas interculturales de la historia y del presente de las poblaciones indígenas del alto río Negro (Brasil/Colombia). Estudios Indiana, 11. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut / Gebr. Mann Verlag, 7-52. The Perspective from Germany: Steps towards a Dialogue on Objects Michael Kraus Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Alemania [email protected] Ernst Halbmayer Philipps-Universität Marburg, Alemania [email protected] Ingrid Kummels Freie Universität Berlin, Alemania [email protected] “Objects as witnesses of cultural contact – intercultural perspectives on the history and the present times of the indigenous populations of the upper Negro River (Brazil/ Colombia)” was the theme of a workshop and conference that took place in July and August 2014 at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. Both events were deliberately designed to act as a new avenue of transcultural cooperation and were initiated with the objective of generating knowledge about artefacts that had become ‘ethnographic’ objects over a hundred years ago. Our idea was to congregate the protagonists of the societies historically linked through these objects. This would allow us to interpret, exchange and discuss both the multidimensional meanings of the collection’s objects as well as their actual relevance from different perspectives. Therefore, during the course of these events, it was not exclusively these artefacts – which we referred to as ‘witnesses’ – that became the object of our attention. These objects were acquired by the German anthropologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg in the years between 1903 and 1905 during his travels along the upper Río Negro in Amazonia, in the border region between Brazil and Colombia, with the purpose of delivering them to the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin (at the time known as Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde).