...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...

... 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...

... 4 Warao lamenters construct a history of the dead’s interpersonal conflicts. Briggs has pointed out that these types of performances among the Warao are a means of social critique and have the potential for trans- History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community forming space...

... 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...

... emergence 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...

... a. Warao 2. Guajá b. Akawaio 3. Tembé c. Arekuna 4. Tupinambá d. Makusi 5. Guaraní e. Desana...

... external. A minority of the essays focus on magical techniques and cosmology, but those that do are fascinating reading and raise interesting questions. Johannes Wilbert’s detailing of the position and training of the Warao dark shamans of northern Venezuela reveals an amaz- ingly complex cosmology in...

... cosmology, but those that do are fascinating reading and raise interesting questions. Johannes Wilbert’s detailing 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...

... cosmology, but those that do are fascinating reading and raise interesting questions. Johannes Wilbert’s detailing 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...