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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2010
Print publication year:
2009
First published in:
1908
Online ISBN:
9780511706233
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706233
Subjects:
Linguistic Anthropology, History, History of Native American Peoples, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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Die Hianákoto-Umáua, first published in 1908, is Theodor Koch-Grünberg's illustrated account of the expedition he made together with other scientists to Northern Brazil in the years 1903–1905. The German researcher, a pioneer in the field of South American ethnology, describes his encounters with the indigenous people who lived in the region of the Japurá River and the Rio Negro. The Omagua tribe had lived there before the Spanish conquest of South America in the sixteenth century. Koch-Grünberg explains that although the words Omagua and Umáua are alike, the sixteenth-century Omagua tribe was culturally and linguistically quite distinct from the Umáua tribe he himself met. The main focus of the book is a systematic record of the vocabulary of the Umáua tribe based upon the author's own observations. He lists words relating to a variety of topics including body parts, medicine and religion.

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