Notes on the Visit of Dr. Bach to the Catuquinaru Indians of Amazonas

Church, George Earl

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“…Given the importance of the visual signal in language (both spoken and, of course, signed), even more faithful is the video broadcast. A comparison is often drawn between these implements and speech surrogates, which scholars have called "telegraphic instruments" (Church 1898;Verbeken (1922)), "drum-telephones" (Verbeken, 1922), "loudspeaker[s]" (Neeley 1999), "ancient text messages" (Villepastour 2010), and "musical newspapers" (Bebey 1999). Practitioners of some systems have drawn the same connection: "Nekgini speakers playfully liken their slit-gongs to a telephone system, and it is common to hear one person say to another, "ring me on a slitgong"" (Leach 2002).…”

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Systems of Communication: Aspects of Culture and Structure in Speech Surrogates

James

2021

Front. Commun.

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The practice of speech surrogacy is used for communication across many cultures. Previous work has historically engaged with the study of speech surrogates as part of anthropological or ethnomusicological inquiry; more recently, scholars have explored aspects of the formal relationship between spoken and surrogate linguistic structures. How speech surrogates function as systems of communication is not yet well understood. Based on evidence from an interdisciplinary corpus of documentation, characteristics of culture and discourse, as well as features of linguistic structure, are shown to play a role in fostering communicability in speech surrogates. Cultural constraints are linked to the development of a speech surrogate-mediated discourse within a community of practice, facilitating comprehension of the surrogate system. Moreover, specific structures including formulas, enphrasing, and framing devices are identified as common to various speech surrogate traditions, suggesting a common function as aids to communication. This analysis points to the need to investigate speech surrogates as linguistic systems within a discursive context.

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Systems of Communication: Aspects of Culture and Structure in Speech Surrogates

James

2021

Front. Commun.

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“…Rivet (1920) discussed it as a variant of the <katukina> ethnonym/glossonym focused on in his study, but this term seems to merit separate treatment for different reasons. First, there are some issues raised by the linguistic evidence associated with this ethnonym, a set of some 30 lexical items and expressions poorly recorded by the Argentinian José Bach and published in Church (1898). Despite some forms of obvious Tupi-Guarani provenance (<Ocausú> 'the house', <Cesá> 'the eyes', <Putia> 'the breast'; CHURCH, 1898, p. 64), the available data is messy enough to lead some researchers into claiming that "Katukinarú looks like a hoax" (FLECK, 2013, p. 20).…”

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On the Etymology of the Ethnonym Katukina

Carvalho

2020

Rev. Bras. Líng. Ind.

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The present paper proposes an etymology for the troublesome ethnonym , used, for over a century, to designate a series of western Amazonian indigenous groups. I propose that the term originates in a Purus Arawakan denominal monovalent predicate ("adjective") *ka-tukanɨ, meaning 'speaker of an indigenous language'. This etymology is explicitly argued to be superior to existing alternatives on formal, semantic and distributional grounds. The typical and distinguishing properties of different kinds of ethnonyms (exonyms and autonyms) are also discussed, as these are of critical importance in establishing the implausible nature of other, competing etymologies for this term.

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From Way-Finding to Map-Making: The Spatial Information Fields of Aboriginal Peoples

Blakemore

1981

Progress in Human Geography

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Notes on the Visit of Dr. Bach to the Catuquinaru Indians of Amazonas

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Systems of Communication: Aspects of Culture and Structure in Speech Surrogates

Systems of Communication: Aspects of Culture and Structure in Speech Surrogates

On the Etymology of the Ethnonym Katukina

From Way-Finding to Map-Making: The Spatial Information Fields of Aboriginal Peoples

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