Goajiro (Arawak) I: Phonology
In: International Journal of American Linguistics, Jg. 15 (1949), S. 45-56
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0. In the summer of 1947 the author, who was up to then engaged in field studies among the Cuna Indians on the San Blas coast of Panama, resolved to benefit from an invitation by Dr. Duque G6mez, head of the Instituto Etnol6gico y Servicio de Arqueologia in Bogota, to take up linguistic research among Indian tribes in Colombia. According to the arrangement I could join a branch institute at Santa Marta (the Instituto Etno16gico del Magdalena) under the directorship of Dr. Gerard Reichel-Dolmatoff. During my stay at his headquarters in the healthy coastland below the Sierra Nevada peaks in an attractive part of Colombia and enjoying lavish hospitality, I had ample opportunities for field trips in the company of my host. It was on this occasion that I first made the personal acquaintance of the Goajiro Indian. Later on in the summer, when Dr. Duque G6mez kindly asked me to join a combined ethnological and linguistic expedition to the Goajira peninsula, I gratefully accepted and began with interest to extend my newly started investigation into the Goajiro language. The latter is now spoken in the greater part of the peninsula of the same name, in Colombian as well as in Venezuelan territory. Linguistically and ethnically perhaps the strongest native tribe in Colombia, the Goajiros are frequently seen even in cities like Rio Hacha and Maracaibo, where they come to trade and where their melodious language and picturesque costumes are noticed by visitors. Once bitter enemies of the whites, this fine and intelligent nation is now peaceable, but independent and somewhat reserved. One division of them, the Cosina (Goajiro kusi'na)-which perhaps only represents a clan (cf. below)-live in greater seclusion in the mountainous interior (the Serrania de Cosina, Goajiro u'ci kusi'na). The Goajiro are divided into clans or families (sometimes called castes),1 for example the E'pinayu', the E'piayu' (E'piayu'; cf. 3.9), the Pusaina, the Hu-sayu', the A'psana, the Uraliu', etc., which have their own chiefs. At the present time, the families are not located in any particular districts, and the authority of their chiefs appears to be limited. There are no communal houses or ceremonial centers. Although an intensified study most probably will reveal unexpected details, the individual in this tribe appears to be bound by few restrictions. The principal settlements with which I came into direct or indirect contact are: Rio Hacha (Goajiro Si'cim'a (RO),mainly Colombian), Hato Nuevo (Ha-tanai),Fonseca (Honse'ka), Papayal (Ma'paya'l), Uribia (capital of the territory of Goajira, mainly Colombian), Maicao, Manaure (Akualu'umai, locative form), Santa Cruz (Rilipimanamai, loc.), Carrizal (Atomaoi, Hotomaoi, probably loc., Ka'raisira), Yuleng (Yalai), Card6n (Walirahoi), San Jose (Ulima'u), Bahia Honda (Sohasemoi, loc.), Puerto Estrella (Para'lialu'u, loc.), Cabo de Vela (Hepi'ramoi, loc., E'pi'ra, Kau), Santa Ana, Nazaret (Wac'uali (RO), Macuah'ala (NC), Masale', Masale, Isiru'mai, loc.), where I stayed most of the
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Goajiro (Arawak) I: Phonology
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Holmer, Nils M. |
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Zeitschrift: | International Journal of American Linguistics, Jg. 15 (1949), S. 45-56 |
Veröffentlichung: | University of Chicago Press, 1949 |
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ISSN: | 1545-7001 (print) ; 0020-7071 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1086/464022 |
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