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  • 6 - Partial Nasality in Maxakalí and Kaingang

  • Andrew Nevins, University College London and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Book:
    When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 84-98

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the contributions of two minoritized indigenous languages of Brazil, Maxakalí and Kaingang, to representations of nasality gestures akin to musical scores, as well as the right way to frame the universality of the kinship terms (and ideal universal syllables)' mama’ and ‘papa’ in light of a phonetic model called Enhancement Theory. These languages have either the consonants /m/ and /p/, but not /b/, or /b/ and /p/, but not /m/, and the allophonic environments in which this available phonetic space is used are organized around perceptual and articulatory optimization.

  • Monumental burials and memorial feasting: an example from the southern Brazilian highlands

  • José Iriarte, J. Christopher Gillam, Oscar Marozzi
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 82 / Issue 318 / December 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 947-961
    Print publication:
    December 2008

  • What happened at the sites of prehistoric burial mounds after they were erected? In the southern highlands of Brazil and Argentina the pre-Hispanic mounds of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries AD are surrounded by large circular enclosures with avenues leading to their centre. The authors discovered that the banks of the surrounding enclosure were built up over several generations of time, accompanied by a succession of ovens. Ethnohistoric observations of more recent peoples in the same region suggested an explanation: the cremation of a chief was followed by periodic feasts at his mound, where meat was steamed and maize beer prepared at the edge of the gathering.