South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we fi
Ashéninka Perené belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limite
This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazi
Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-sp
A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline