Four Pame Texts

Gibson, Lorna F.; Olson, D.; Olson, Anne D.

doi:10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.1963.316

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“…Chamal's association with scarcity and poverty in the past, even to the level of famine food status, is a salient feature that appeared frequently in our interviews, coinciding with the findings of other authors (Bonta et al 2019; Chávez 2010 ; Chemin Bassler 1984, 2000; Flores González 2014; Gibson et al 1963; Vovides 1999; Zapata Avendaño 2018). Cycads have often been considered a famine food across the world (Whiting 1963).…”

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Toxic Harvest: Chamal Cycad (Dioon edule) Food Culture in Xi'Iuy Indigenous Communities of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Martínez¹,

Martı́nez

Bonta³

2020

Journal of Ethnobiology

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We documented harvesting, food preparation, and toxic risks of the poisonous chamal cycad, Dioon edule, in San Luis Potosi state, Mexico—one of a handful of places in Latin America where cycad eating persists. In Xi'iuy ethnic communities of the Pamería region, cycad consumption has long been intimately associated with cultural identity. The chamal food preparation process is protracted and difficult. Cooks seek to fully eliminate deadly toxins while achieving a pleasing taste and satisfying appearance in their cycad food products. Correct preparation is tested by a variety of methods difficult for amateur cooks to master. The complexity of the chamal culinary process, along with the ease of procuring foods more agreeable to the palate and less dangerous, out-migration of younger people, and preference for processed foods are some of the key factors that contribute to erosion of knowledge and use of this ancient wild food resource.

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“…Cooked chamal was ground on grindstones, and the resulting cycad meal molded into tamales. These they wrapped in maize leaves and cooked in clay pots (Gibson et al 1963).…”

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Toxic Harvest: Chamal Cycad (Dioon edule) Food Culture in Xi'Iuy Indigenous Communities of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Martínez¹,

Martı́nez

Bonta³

2020

Journal of Ethnobiology

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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective

Herce

2024

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This paper reports on the compilation and quantitative analysis of VeLePa, an inflected lexicon containing paradigms of 216 Central Pame verbs and a total of 12528 elicited words, in phonological form, supplied with cell and lexeme frequency information. The language (Otomanguean) is of interest due to both its extraordinary morphological complexity, as well as due to the organization of the inflection into a four-fold concurrent classification system where prefixes, stems, tone-stress, and suffixes all display inflection classes and irregularities which are only partially predictable from each other. A quantitative analysis of morphological predictability as per the Paradigm Cell Filling Problem is conducted for every layer, and for the whole word, as well as of the uncertainties language users face to learn or predict the morphosyntactic values or lexical meaning of a verb form from its morphology.

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Four Pame Texts

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Toxic Harvest: Chamal Cycad (Dioon edule) Food Culture in Xi'Iuy Indigenous Communities of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Toxic Harvest: Chamal Cycad (Dioon edule) Food Culture in Xi'Iuy Indigenous Communities of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective

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