Making oneself at Home: The Grammar of Travelling among the Makushi in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.5528
- isbn: 9782367812915
- eisbn: 9782367813639
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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écotones Guyane française Guyana Suriname migration travail engagé ecotones French Guyane Guyana Suriname migration indentured labour Geography SOC015000 RGCSujets proches
Wayfarers Voyagers Travellers Traveling Travelling Pinnacles Orology Ridges, Mountain Ranges, Mountain Mountain ridges Peaks Mountain ranges Mounts (Mountains) Mountain peaks Summits (Mountains) Hills Orography Life--Philosophy Grammar, Polyglot Grammar Polyglot grammar Comparative grammar Grammar Grammar, Philosophical Language and languages--Grammar, Comparative Grammar, Universal Philosophical grammar Frenchmen (French people) Community DorsumCiter ce document
Lisa Katharina Grund, « Making oneself at Home: The Grammar of Travelling among the Makushi in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5528
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For the Makushi, the most southern Pemon group of the Carib-speaking peoples of the Circum-Roraima region, movement is a key concept of making their worlds. The major ethnographies of the area, notably the works of Overing (1990) and Butt Colson (1985), point to the search for knowledge and wisdom as a crucial aspect of social life in the Guianas associated with specialised or shamanic knowledge. Similarly, travellers bring observations from outside back to the community, which is communicate...