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The purpose of this paper is to analyze oral tales of the fox in Tapiete (Tupi-Guarani) language as a cultural and linguistic creative practice, in a context in which this indigenous group is undergoing processes of language shift in favor of Spanish. In order to contribute to the study of common discursive patterns among the languages of the Gran Chaco, grammatical, stylistic and (meta)pragmatic resources recurrent in these tales are examined within the framework of concrete speech events, from a linguistic anthropological theoretical perspective. The analysis is based on data documented in audiovisual format during longterm field research undertaken in Tapiete communities in Argentina and Bolivia between 2004 and 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the modalities of organization and the collective demands made in recent years by the indigenous population of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In order to do so, it addresses the process of participation of the new ethnic leaderships in local government through the case of the La Coordinación de Pueblos Originarios de Almirante Brown. The paper explores the strategies, the underlying logic, and the decisions that contributed to the processes of ethnopolitical participation in the structure of the contemporary Argentina state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to complement the ethnographic and linguistic information about the Zapotec area of southern Oaxaca with the documentation of a series of 42 terms associated with the textile tradition, which are presented in Spanish and accompanied by their equivalent in several linguistic variants and ethnographic notes. The entries of the vocabulary correspond to parts of the backstrap loom, elements of the clothing, fibers, dyes, weaving actions and some designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the linkages between archaeology, identity, and tourism in Peru in the twin contexts of economic and social development. The role of archaeologists in the heritage process (patrimonialización) is highlighted, and shown to transcend the production of narratives about the past. The complex role of the indigenous in national mythology, as historical legacy, is shown to hamper engagements between archaeologists and campesino peasants. Policies focused on the management for tourism of material remains of the precolonial past, it is argued, tend to feed objectified pasts. Incipient attempts to develop the tourism industry drawing on the archaeological remains surrounding the anthropic lake at Keushu (Yungay) and on those at the headwaters of the Llullán Valley (Awkismarka or Pueblo Viejo de Huandoy) are discussed to show the promise and pitfalls of ethical practices that may lead to locally grounded heritage strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the various claims and class actions involving the Qom people of eastern Formosa Province (Argentina) in recent years. In order to do so, it addresses their involvement in the struggle of small-scale peasant farmers. Discussing the protests led by the Movimiento Campesino de Formosa in 2005, the paper goes on to explore the forms, meanings and determinations of the indigenous movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The significance of the sonic, especially of vocal music, in the context of animism and perspectivism was hitherto underestimated in anthropological theory. Working on examples of Shipibo-Konibo magical songs from the author's own ethnomusicological fieldwork recordings, in this paper it is proposed that the first-person experience of médicos (healers or sorcerers) has to be considered most valuable for interpreting structures of relationships between humans and non-humans. This experience surfaces most obviously in singing styles and lyrics of songs performed by médicos in the current state of interaction with non-humans during ritual curing, worshipping, or fighting. Results obtained from this analysis include: 1) The ascription of consciousness and human or humanoid physicality to non-humans is the result of the médico's perceptions during musically induced or controlled altered states of perception and cognition (ASPC); 2) The transformation into and identification with non-humans involve full conscious experience by the médico and therefore pertain to the highest level of evidentiality in Shipibo discourse which is ontologically determining; 3) Human physicality and competence of perception and action is not universal among all beings but is a matter of grading dependent on magical and practical powers of the respective species; 4) A "sonic perspectivism" allowing for agency in the construction of perspectives, and an "ambient multinaturalism" extending the notion of transformation from body to environment, are introduced by analysing sonic phenomena. Finally, the author proposes to focus more on indigenous praxis than on analysis and comparison of narratives in order to understand indigenous ontologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]