Andean Aymara

David Eberhard has published his Mamaindê grammar with the LOT dissertation series (236).  The abstract can be seen on the LinguistList. An excerpt can be found here.
Cross-posted from Leo Wetzels’  Amazonian Linguistics website.
Incidentally, the TLS has a review of a new collection, published in Gallimard’s Bilbiothèque de la Pléiade, of Lévi-Strauss’s collected works. Wilcken writes:
The Pléiade edition [...]

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There is a photo exhibit by Odileiz Cruz, a fellow alumnus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam open until the end of this month at CEDLA (UvA) on Keizersgracht 395-397 in Amsterdam, in which she shows some photos from her fieldwork with this group in Roraima, Brazil.
There are only a few pictures, but it is still [...]

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De acuerdo a las investigaciones realizadas, los indígenas apostados en la Curva del Diablo (Bagua, Amazonas) el 5 de junio pasado no portaban armas de fuego.
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Taken from Chronicle of a Killing Foretold by Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas and The Economist article Blood in the Jungle.

November 2007 President García publishes articles which state:
“The primary resource is Amazonia. It has 63 million hectares and abundant rain. Lumber forestry can be developed here, especially in the eight million hectares destroyed, but to [...]

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Indigenous groups lifted their road blockades and suspended their strike against key energy sites Thursday, a day after a congressional committee voted to repeal two land development laws decreed by President Alan García.
García called the move a “grave historical mistake” and predicted that rolling back his decrees would condemn Peru’s rural and indigenous communities to [...]

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From DemocracyNow:
“In Peru, indigenous rights groups called off more than a week of protests at two key Peruvian energy sites after congressional leaders moved to throw out a controversial land law. The law would have made it easier for mining and energy companies to buy communally owned land. Indigenous groups were concerned this would have [...]

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