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...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...

... Amerindian traditions in which mourners focus on the mistreatment of the dead. According to Charles Briggs 4 Warao lamenters construct a history of the dead’s interpersonal conflicts. Briggs has pointed out that these types...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Antiquity of Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge in Amazonia 401 Tupian Groups Non-Tupian Groups 1. Ka’apor a. Warao 2. Guajá b. Akawaio...

... 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...

..., 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...