Tracing the History of the Taruma People through Plants, Their Names, and Uses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12987488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Bredero Zur Lage (0000-0002-3859-8541, Wageningen University & Research, corresponding author), A Machado Gomes (0000-0002-1482-4970, University of Guyana), Myanna Jana Konaukii Gomes, Anne Marie Holt (0009-0007-2451-9148, Wageningen University & Research), Elizabeth Louis, Elizabeth Farrah Louis (0000-0002-0481-1877), Nita Louis, Vincent Louis (0009-0006-9218-8806), Anna K Serke (Leiden University), Irene Suttie, I D Suttie, Tinde R Van Andel (0000-0002-4951-1894, Leiden University), Konrad Rybka (0000-0002-7535-8694, Leiden University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 498-532 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language Contact (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1955-2629 • E-ISSN: 1877-4091 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/19552629-bja10086 |
| OpenAlex | W4408182389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article explores what plants, their names and uses can tell us about the history of the speakers of Taruma, a language isolate of Guyana. We identified Taruma plant taxa from photographs taken by Taruma speakers and learners, and compared the names and uses of the plants they recorded to those of other Indigenous people to identify knowledge that Taruma speakers share with other nations. Our outcomes show the potential of combining botany and linguistics to shed light on the past and serve as a proof-of-concept of the remote method for documenting plant knowledge. We offer linguistic evidence of a Taruma migration and discuss the unusually high rate of loans in Taruma, considering factors such as the strategic location of the Taruma homeland on the Amazon, the subsequent migration into a new linguistic landscape in Guyana, and a past hunter-gather mode of interactions with the environment
Programming language · Sociology · Tracing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · History · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Tobacco and shamanism in South America
Neotropical Ethnoprimatology
Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages
Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
Seeds of Memory
Loan and Inheritance Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Ethnobiological Systems
The Humble Ethnographer
Handbook of Amazonian Languages
Journal of the Travels and Labours of Father Samuel Fritz in the River of the Amazons between 1686 and 1723
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
International Journal of American Linguistics
Material Culture of the Waiwai
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |