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The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 417–438.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Juan Luis Rodriguez This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic...
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The Multiethnic Network of the Lower Orinoco in Early Colonial Times
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 561–579.
Published: 01 October 2000
... de Venezuela . Caracas: Biblioteca de la Academia de la Historia. Barral, Basilio de 1960 Guarao guarata: Lo que cuentan los indios guaraos . Caracas: Escuelas Gráficas Salesianas. 1979 Diccionario warao-castellano;castellano-warao . Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Biord...
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History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 381–401.
Published: 01 July 2001
... Amerindian traditions in which mourners focus on
the mistreatment of the dead. According to Charles Briggs
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Warao lamenters construct a history of the dead’s interpersonal conflicts.
Briggs has pointed out that these types...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 513–533.
Published: 01 October 2000
...
by each author in their understanding of indigenous (e.g., the Warekena,
Baré, Ye’kuana, Warao, Mapoyo, Palenque, Otomaco, Adole, Caquetío,
Ayomán, Gayón, and Coyón) or Afro-Venezuelan peoples (e.g., the Ari-
paeño). A comprehensive view of the academic and national significance of
these studies...
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Shamans in the Colonial Frontier Zone: Spirit Mastery in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Ecuador
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and animal worlds finds expression among the South American Warao of the Orinoco delta, Venezuela, where sorcerers are believed to be “shape-shifting were-alligators” (Wilbert 2004 : 41). There is some archaeological evidence of a crocodilian-human connection from coastal Ecuador, as human-caiman motifs...
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Colonial Transformations in Venezuela
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 747–754.
Published: 01 October 2000
... of contemporary Warao peoples of the Orinoco Delta
region through the absorption of remnant groups from neighboring Carib-
and Arawakan-speaking societies. Their suggestion that this colonial his-
torical process was guided by pre-Hispanic Waraoan models of cultural
and ecological diversity is an interesting...
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Recent Books in the Historical Archaeology of Latin America and the Caribbean
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 409–418.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of the position and
training of the Warao dark shamans of northern Venezuela reveals an amaz-
ingly complex cosmology in which the different types of shamans oper-
ate. Carlos Fausto asks why those who have an interest in Amazonian sha-
manism have downplayed or even ignored two of its central themes, blood...
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Reevaluating Tradition and Modernity in Latin American Vernacular Religions
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 419–431.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of the position and
training of the Warao dark shamans of northern Venezuela reveals an amaz-
ingly complex cosmology in which the different types of shamans oper-
ate. Carlos Fausto asks why those who have an interest in Amazonian sha-
manism have downplayed or even ignored two of its central themes, blood...
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Uncovering Amazonia: History, Ethnology, and Archaeology in the Guayana Region
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 433–438.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of the position and
training of the Warao dark shamans of northern Venezuela reveals an amaz-
ingly complex cosmology in which the different types of shamans oper-
ate. Carlos Fausto asks why those who have an interest in Amazonian sha-
manism have downplayed or even ignored two of its central themes, blood...
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Antiquity of Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge in Amazonia: The Tupí-Guaraní Family and Time
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 399–422.
Published: 01 April 2000
...
Antiquity of Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge in Amazonia 401
Tupian Groups Non-Tupian Groups
1. Ka’apor a. Warao
2. Guajá b. Akawaio...
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To What Extent Were Amazon Women Facts, Real or Imagined, of Native Americans?
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
... of Cannibalism. Hispanic American Historical Review 80 : 721 -51. Wilbert, Johannes 1993 Mystic Endowment:Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians . Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press. Wright, Robin M. 1981 History and Religion of the Baniwa Peoples of the Upper Rio Negro Valley. PhD diss...
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Étagué amoré noboui erebo : Amerindian Resistance and Adaptation in the Colonies of Suriname and Cayenne during the Mid-seventeenth Century
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (2): 159–186.
Published: 01 April 2025
..., and Warao were guaranteed their freedom and could only be enslaved if they committed a crime (Buve 1662: 39, 46; Hartsinck 1770 : 293; Wolbers 1861 : 63; Heshuysen 1925 –26: 346–47). It is said that van Sommelsdijck took the daughter of an Amerindian captain as a domestic servant and perhaps as a wife...
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