• The constitution of naüne (body) among the yunatügü (tikuna) 

      Santos Angarita, Abel Antonio
      The yunatügü (Tikuna) perceive the na (beings) as possessing four fundamental principles: pora (power), naẽ (thought), maü̃ (vitality) y kua̰ (knowledge). For the yuukü (healer) the human body is a web of tü (strings) of ...
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    • The hupd’äh notion of living well in their territory 

      Ribeiro Monteiro, Lirian; McCallum, Cecília Anne
      The interior of the forest is where the Hupd’äh, indigenous group of the Upper Rio Negro, Amazonas state, Brazil, feel safe and happy and it is to hunting camps that many families go at times of plenty. When perambulating ...
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    • The illegal mining plundering the entrails of the earth 

      Pinilla Pedraza, Claudia Patricia; Santos Morán, Clara Yesenia
      This article presents the results of a thesis in social work about the perceptions and effects of illegal alluvial mining in the Cotuhé River (north of the Amazon Trapeze, Colombian Amazon). It presents information about ...
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    • The observation of everyday life 

      Rubio, Brus
      After attempting to paint the multiple beings inhabiting the oral history of his Bora and Uitoto ancestors, Brus Rubio found in the daily gestures of the men and women of his community, a technique of observation and ...
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    • The products of the garden for life and health 

      Rodríguez, Adelaida
      This article was written by the author from the knowledge of her parents, of the Nonuya and Muinane groups of the Middle Caquetá River (Colombian Amazon), with the support of an indigenous research grant of the Tropenbos-Colombia ...
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    • The rivers of our memory 

      Yahuarcani, Rember
      The work of the artist Rember Yahuarcani is a visual itinerary through the myths and stories of the beings that populate the physical and spiritual world of Amazonia. The myths are the rivers where the memory of the ancestors ...
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    • The science of life written on birds second part : wattled curass ow (crax globulosa ) 

      Nejedeka, Aniceto
      Bilingual text Muinane-Spanish about the bird species niimɨku ‘Wattled Curassow’ (Crax globulosa), written by Aniceto Nejedeka, based on the knowledge of the elders of the Muinane tribe. This text is the second part of a ...
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    • The science of live written on birds. fourth part: undulated tinamou (crypturellus undulatus) 

      Nejedeka (Numeyɨ), Aniceto
      Bilingual text Muinane-Spanish about the bird species kɨɨñu, “undulated tinamou” (Crypturellus undulatus), written by Aniceto Nejedeka, based on the knowledge of the elders of the Muinane tribe. This text is the fourth ...
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    • The science of live written on birds. fourth part: undulated tinamou (crypturellus undulatus) 

      Nejedeka (Numeyɨ), Aniceto
      Bilingual text Muinane-Spanish about the bird species kɨɨñu, “undulated tinamou” (Crypturellus undulatus), written by Aniceto Nejedeka, based on the knowledge of the elders of the Muinane tribe. This text is the fourth ...
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    • The science of live written on birds. fourth part: undulated tinamou (crypturellus undulatus) 

      Nejedeka (Numeyɨ), Aniceto
      Bilingual text Muinane-Spanish about the bird species kɨɨñu, “undulated tinamou” (Crypturellus undulatus), written by Aniceto Nejedeka, based on the knowledge of the elders of the Muinane tribe. This text is the fourth ...
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    • The science written on birds. first part: creation of our grandfather life-tobacco of the center 

      Nejedeka, Aniceto
      Bilingual text Muinane-Spanish about the beginnings of the creation of the World. This text is the first part of a larger work about the meaning of birds for the Muinane ethnic group.
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    • The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia 

      Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles
      The literature on Amazonian ethnology is plenty of mythical serpents whose deeds are relatedto the origin of humanity, the invention and teaching of shamanic knowledge, artefacts, graphicmotifs and songs. If the mythological ...
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    • Tracing social history from synchronic linguistic and ethnographic data: The prehistory of Resígaro contact with Bora 

      Seifart, Frank
      The Amazonian language Resígaro was heavily influenced by the unrelated, neighboring Bora language. Bora influence involves cultural assimilation, some loanwords, and heavy morphological borrowing. What social circumstances ...
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    • Trama, tejido: pensar la construcción cultural 

      Pizarro, Ana Irene
      La multiplicidad de flujos culturales, así como su movimiento interno entre los diferentes sistemas literarios, nos conducen a pensar un sistema de relaciones en donde interfieren varios aportes culturales al mismo tiempo ...
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    • Transformative cornerstones of social science research for global change 

      Hackman, Heidi; St. Clair, Asuncion Lera
      Given the urgency to compromise the social sciences with the research on global environmental change, the International Social Science Council designed in 2011 the “Climate and Global Environmental Change Design Project” ...
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    • Turismo, megaeventos esportivos e a Copa do Mundo de 2014: um olhar na/da tríplice fronteira amazônica Brasil-Peru-Colômbia 

      Butel Ribeiro, Alex; Schor, Tatiana
      Pela segunda vez na história, o Brasil foi palco do mais importante torneio de futebol do planeta: a Copa do Mundo da fifa. Na edição realizada em 2014, a região amazônica participou diretamente do processo, tendo a cidade ...
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    • Two cultural myths from the upper amazon: tales of a humanized world 

      Gómez Pulgarin, Wilson Eduardo
      Despite cultural, linguistic and geographic differences, the Witoto and Tikuna indigenous peoples share mythical episodes, which happen to be at the base of their everyday activities and their rituals of relationship with ...
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    • Two jews and a christian drink yajé at the maloca (english) 

      Weiskopf, Jimmy
      Original text in English.
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    • Two jews and a christian drink yajé at the maloca (spanish) 

      Weiskopf, Jimmy
      Narrative about two Jews who go to an Amazonian Maloca to drink ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) with a Christian Indian.
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    • Tɨnuango moniya uai: anastasia candre yamacuri’s word of wealth 

      Vivas Hurtado, Selnich
      This paper expands on the concept of moniya uai in a threefold manner: as a critique of the hegemonic culture, as a research method, and as a creative process. We believe these three phases can be found in the poetic and ...
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