Tracing social history from synchronic linguistic and ethnographic data: The prehistory of Resígaro contact with Bora

• Main Author: Frank Seifart
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2015-10-01
• Series: Mundo Amazónico
• Subjects: Language contact; Resígaro; Bora; Ethnohistory
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/48222
• ISSN: 2145-5074; 2145-5082

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">The Amazonian language Resígaro was heavily influenced by the unrelated, neighboring Bora language. Bora influence involves cultural assimilation, some loanwords, and heavy morphological borrowing. What social circumstances lead to this influence? This paper reviews our current knowledge about the cultural and linguistic features that Resígaro borrowed from Bora and interprets these as reflecting a particular social history involving bilingualism and </span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">ceremonial exchange. </span></p></div></div></div>