Language Exogamy and Ethnicity in the Upper Rio Negro
La exogamia lingüística y etnicidad en el Alto Río Negro
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| Subject Language | Tatuyo Bará Tanimuca-Retuarã Makuna Tuyuca Cubeo Baniwa Hup Yuhup |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119770 ailla:119619 ailla:274705 ailla:119764 ailla:119787 ailla:119655 ailla:119657 ailla:119685 ailla:252268 |
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| Title | Language Exogamy and Ethnicity in the Upper Rio Negro |
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| Date Created | 2021-06-25 |
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| Description | Presentation abstract: In this paper we explore how notions such as language and dialect boundaries, social exogamous units, (e.g. clans and phratries), and ethnic markers (such as having a common mythical ancestor, emergence from the same sacred place, sharing the same set of personal names, etc.) organize the multilingual societies in the Upper Rio Negro. We show that the expected alignment of language boundary, exogamous group and ethnic group is in fact quite unusual. The clans are the only social unit where one finds a direct correlation among language, patrilineages and ethnic markers. Any other more complex social structure, involving the aggregation of clans into larger ethnic groups or marriage alliances with other clans, will have important variations in the alignment of language, exogamy and ethnicity. While language is not necessary or sufficient to demarcate exogenous groups (despite its important role in the ideology of linguistic exogamy), it is an important marker of ethnic identities. Given that language is one among other possible ethnic markers, there is also miss-alignments between language boundaries and ethnic identities. In our talk, we will analyze these alignments and discuss how they represent a spectrum of possible behaviors of inter-ethnic and multilingual interactions in Amazonia. |
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| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Chacon, Thiago (Author) Cayón, Luis (Author) |
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