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Did the Kulinas become the Marubos? A Linguistic and Ethnohistorical Investigation

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ID5167214
AuthorsDavid W Fleck (0000-0003-2178-3879, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume5
Issue2
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venue1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1652-4772 • E-ISSN: 2001-9866
PublisherTrinity University Coates Library - DC Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.70845/2572-3626.1042
OpenAlexW81159047
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This paper presents the results of a study designed to clear up confusion surrounding the ethnic and linguistic identity of several indigenous groups from western Amazonia that have been denominated “Kulina,” “Marubo,” or variants of these terms. Linguistic analysis revealed unequivocally that the term Kulina has been used to refer to three different languages, two in the Panoan family and one in the Arawan family, and that the term Marubo has been used to refer to two different languages in the Panoan family. To elucidate the ethnohistory of each of these five groups, the usage of the terms Kulina and Marubo is chronicled from their earliest occurrences in historical sources (the 17th century for Kulina and the 19th for Marubo) up through their current-day use as denominations for ethnic groups living in the Javari basin. The unexpectedly high level of lexical similarity between two of the languages under study suggested the possibility that members of a supposedly extinct Panoan group denominated Kulina may be the ancestors of the people currently denominated Marubo. Therefore, a second theme in the present paper is the examination of linguistic and historical clues that help determine whether in fact the historical Kulinas became the modern-day Marubos. Este trabajo presenta los resultados de un estudio diseñado para aclarar la confusión que rodea la identidad étnica y lingüística de varios grupos indígenas de la Amazonia occidental que han sido denominados “Kulina,” “Marubo,” o variantes de estos términos. El análisis lingüístico reveló sin duda que el término Kulina se ha utilizado para referirse a tres idiomas diferentes, dos de la familia lingüística Pano y uno en la familia lingüística Arawá, y que el término Marubo se ha utilizado para referirse a dos idiomas diferentes de la familia Pano. Para elucidar la etno-historia de cada uno de estos cinco grupos, los términos Kulina y Marubo son documentados cronológicamente desde sus usos más antiguos en las fuentes históricas (el siglo XVII para Kulina y el siglo XIX para Marubo) hasta sus usos actuales como denominaciones para etnias que viven en la cuenca del río Javari. El nivel inesperadamente alto de semejanza léxica entre dos de los idiomas estudiados sugirió la posibilidad de que miembros de una etnia Pano supuestamente extinta denominada Kulina, podrían ser los antepasados de la gente actualmente denominada Marubo. Por lo tanto, un segundo tema de este trabajo es la investigación de las pistas lingüísticas e históricas

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Citations per year0,59
Citation span2009 - 2023 (15)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 9

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