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    The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers....
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    Urarina is an language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers...
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    referencing the Urarina's primordial past. Urarina mythology attests to the centrality of weaving and its role in engendering Urarina society. The post-diluvial...
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    well as the Andes, animism and shamanism are common, as noted among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia. Portuguese and Spanish are the primary languages...
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  • Urarinas District is one of five districts of the province Loreto in Peru. In addition to Jivaroan-speaking peoples, a major indigenous Amazonian group...
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    Descendants of indigenous peoples, such as the Quechua and Aymara, or the Urarina of Amazonia, make up the majority of the population in Bolivia (56%) and...
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    rainforest. Like other indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, such as the Urarina, plants, especially trees, hold a complex and important interest for the...
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    acquired no immunity. All of the Peruvian Indigenous groups, such as the Urarina, and even those who live isolated in the most remote areas of the Amazon...
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    (Native Communities), particularly among Amazonian societies like the Urarina and Matsés. In Chile, there the most populous indigenous peoples are the...
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    Examples of ethnic groups residing in eastern Peru include the Shipibo, Urarina, Cocama, and Aguaruna. There is no special law for ethnic groups or reserves;...
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  • constituents that is object–verb–subject such as Äiwoo, Guarijio, Hixkaryana, Urarina, the constructed language Klingon, and to some extent Tapirapé. Although...
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    peoples' rainforest communities continue to disappear, while others, like the Urarina continue to struggle to fight for their cultural survival and the fate...
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    Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (category Articles containing Urarina-language text)
    Advanced Studies, ISBN 0-901282-02-2 Olawsky, Knut J. (2006), A Grammar of Urarina, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110190205 Pavlík, Radoslav...
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  • exchanged as objects, Dean’s (1995) research on Amazon bride service among the Urarina demonstrates how differentially situated subjects negotiate the politics...
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  • Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ballantine Books. Dean, Bartholomew (2009). Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia. Gainesville: University...
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  • attempted to reverse previous attempts at extinguishing Native culture. The Urarina of the Peruvian Amazon have an elaborate cosmological system predicated...
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  • associated with the customary practice of brideservice, as seen among the Urarina of northeastern Peru. During the Song Dynasty in medieval China, matrilocal...
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    Examples of indigenous peoples residing in eastern Peru include the Shipibo, Urarina, Cocama, and Aguaruna, to name just a few. European descendants constitute...
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    Ecuador and Peru. It remains an important part of social life, as among the Urarina of the Peruvian Amazon. After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, peonage...
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    the Peruvian Amazon, debt peonage is an important aspect of contemporary Urarina society. Severe personal debt was widespread in the ancient Near East....
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  • Kaufman (2007) posits the following membership. The unclassified languages Urarina, Puelche, Sabela, Taushiro, Omurano are included in the Kawapanan and Yawan...
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    (15) Tupian (70, including Guaraní) Tuxá (Brazil: Bahia, Pernambuco) † Urarina (also known as Shimacu, Itukale, Shimaku) Vilela Wakona † Warao (Guyana...
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    evangelization among the indigenous peoples of the vast rainforest, such as the Urarina. In the late 1600s, Czech Jesuit Father Samuel Fritz, an apostle of the...
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    Many indigenous peoples, such as the Aguaruna, Cocama-Cocamilla and the Urarina, inhabit the jungle, some in relative isolation from the rest of the world...
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  • Fijian, Malagasy, Qʼeqchiʼ, Terêna OVS "Grass eat cows." 1% 1   Hixkaryana, Urarina OSV "Grass cows eat." 0% Tobati, Warao Frequency distribution of word order...
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    home to many Amazonian indigenous peoples such as the Amhuacas and the Urarina. According to the 2007 Peru Census, the mother tongue of most of the residents...
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  • Upper Amazon is home to the strongest extant entheogenic tradition; the Urarina of the Peruvian Amazon, for instance, continue to practice an elaborate...
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    Retrieved 27 February 2021.[dead link] Olawsky, Knut (2006). A Grammar of Urarina (First ed.). De Gruyter. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-11-019020-5. Retrieved 21 January...
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  • tributary of the Marañón River, and has been the traditional territory of the Urarina peoples for at least the past 350 years, if not longer. Located in the...
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    with ayahuasca shamanism, as practiced among Indigenous peoples like the Urarina of the Peruvian Amazon. Dietary taboos are often associated with the use...
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