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Multilingualism in the northwest Amazon
American anthropologist • 69 (6) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 670-684
By: Sorensen, Arthur P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sorenson did fieldwork in the northwest Amazon basin in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963. He found that the rule of local and tribal exogamy has resulted in multilingualism for practically each individual in a settlement group. The article contains an inventory of tribes and languages in the northwest Amazon region.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Linguistic identification
- Kin groups
- Tribe and nation
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tukano
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1970-1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwest Amazon, Vaupés River region, Colombian - Brazilian border
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Sorensen, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 684)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tucano Indians