Cashinahua kinship is renowned for its Kariera-like alternate generation system. What can then be the novel aspect of its study? A linguistic approach reveals several levels and nuances in verbal attitudes among the speakers (modes of address, greetings, speech registers), which are mainly focused on the contextual use of kinship terms. The paper proposes an ethnolinguistic description of this aspect of Cashinahua verbal art, which has received little attention in the literature on the Pano languages of the South American lowlands.
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