Almost all the etiological myths of the Amazon confirm that birds play a fundamental role in the lives of the first settlers. These are powerful beings that can function in different spaces or ecological niches: the earth, the water and the sky. It was those who collaborated in obtaining the fire, “Pano”, in preserving life after the flood, fertilizing women when there were no men “Harakabut”, and, moreover, in the town that was “Takana”, they are responsible for choosing the future shamans or “Eyamitekua”. There are humans who married birds “Yine”. Thanks to them, the dead are protected so that they can complete their journey to the other world to meet their ancestors. Not only in oral literature birds are the protagonists, but also in the...
This article is a memoir of the author's fieldwork experiences studying traditional knowledge of bir...
This article discusses the narratives and representations the some experiences that the tribe Asháni...
ResumoEste texto aborda o homem ribeirinho e rural da Amazônia que vive, no campo operacional da rea...
Casi todos los mitos etiológicos de la amazonia confirman que las aves cumplen un rol fundamental en...
Este artículo pretende mostrar los diversos conocimientos que poseen las comunidades indígenas acerc...
Despite cultural, linguistic and geographic differences, the Witoto and Tikuna indigenous peoples sh...
In this article it is discussed the established relations between the hut inhabitants (quilombolas) ...
Amb aquest article se dóna per acabada la col·laboració iniciada per l'autor en l'anuari anterior. A...
Os chamados ídolos de pedra amazônicos, apesar de conhecidos há mais de cem anos, constituem uma cat...
The Peruvian Amazon is classified as one of the mega-diverse ecosystem of the world. Local populatio...
Peru is culturally, linguistically and biologically diverse, it is the second country in the world w...
El territorio amazónico ha sido intervenido por diversos actores sociales e institucionales. Estas i...
Abstract: This paper sketches a path in the construction of the imagery about the Amazon since its d...
This paper presents a brief look at the conception of a bird that the people of the central Andes of...
En este artículo se presenta un estado de la cuestión de la arqueología amazónica. Este campo de in...
This article is a memoir of the author's fieldwork experiences studying traditional knowledge of bir...
This article discusses the narratives and representations the some experiences that the tribe Asháni...
ResumoEste texto aborda o homem ribeirinho e rural da Amazônia que vive, no campo operacional da rea...
Casi todos los mitos etiológicos de la amazonia confirman que las aves cumplen un rol fundamental en...
Este artículo pretende mostrar los diversos conocimientos que poseen las comunidades indígenas acerc...
Despite cultural, linguistic and geographic differences, the Witoto and Tikuna indigenous peoples sh...
In this article it is discussed the established relations between the hut inhabitants (quilombolas) ...
Amb aquest article se dóna per acabada la col·laboració iniciada per l'autor en l'anuari anterior. A...
Os chamados ídolos de pedra amazônicos, apesar de conhecidos há mais de cem anos, constituem uma cat...
The Peruvian Amazon is classified as one of the mega-diverse ecosystem of the world. Local populatio...
Peru is culturally, linguistically and biologically diverse, it is the second country in the world w...
El territorio amazónico ha sido intervenido por diversos actores sociales e institucionales. Estas i...
Abstract: This paper sketches a path in the construction of the imagery about the Amazon since its d...
This paper presents a brief look at the conception of a bird that the people of the central Andes of...
En este artículo se presenta un estado de la cuestión de la arqueología amazónica. Este campo de in...
This article is a memoir of the author's fieldwork experiences studying traditional knowledge of bir...
This article discusses the narratives and representations the some experiences that the tribe Asháni...
ResumoEste texto aborda o homem ribeirinho e rural da Amazônia que vive, no campo operacional da rea...