UID:
almahu_9947415554002882
Format:
1 online resource (124 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511706233 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2015).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108006705
Language:
English
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706233
