Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS): Recent submissions
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The language of Quechua rural teachers in Bolivia: a study of bilingualism - interlingualism among rural Quechua native speakers
(1995) - ThesisThis is a study of the linguistic situation of contemporary Bolivia carried out between 1990 and 1993. It attempts to delimit a particular speech community (that of bilingual rural school teachers in the Quechua speaking ... -
A grammar of Resígaro
(1976) - ThesisThe thesis gives a description within the framework of tagmemic theory of Resigaro, a South American Indian language of the Huitoto group, spoken in the region between the Amazon and the Putumayo, in north-eastern ... -
The astronomy of Andean myth : the history of a cosmology
(University of St Andrews, 1986) - ThesisThe paper aims to show that Andean myth, on one level, represents a technical language recording astronomical observations of precession and, at the same time, an historical record of simultaneous social and celestial ... -
The making of real people : an interpretation of a morality-centred theory of sociality, livelihood and selfhood among the Muinane (Colombian Amazon)
(2000) - ThesisIn this monograph I interpret a wide-ranging native theory of sociality of the Muinane, an indigenous group of the Colombian Amazon. This theory simultaneously addresses their livelihood activities, some aspects of ... -
Nahuatl in the Huasteca Hidalguense : a case study in the sociology of language
(1982) - ThesisThis thesis examines the vitality of Hidalgo Nahuatl (HN) in the communities of Jaltocan, Panacaxtlan, Santa Cruz, Santa Teresa and Zohuala in the Huasteca Hidalguense, Mexico. The research, conducted in Mexico and St. ...