Volume 9 / Issue 1 (2025)

Guest editors:
Gessiane Lobato Picanço, Justino Sarmento Rezende Tuyuka Dʉpó & Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

Special issue:
Indigenous Knowledge and Languages in Interaction – Amazonian and Arctic Approaches (download complete journal issue)

Foreword:
Gessiane Lobato Picanço, Justino Sarmento Rezende Tuyuka Dʉpó & Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Foreword pp. 3-5

Peer-reviewed articles:
José Carlos Almeida Cruz
Fire and the Wai’kahana Practice of Slash-and-burn Agriculture, the Upper Vaupés River/Northwest Amazonia pp. 6-23

Jimena Bigá
Land-Based Education and Tuxá Cultural Resilience in the Opará River, Brazil pp. 24-40

Marília de Nazaré Ferreira & Tereza Tayná Coutinho Lopes
Names, Nicknames, and Surnames in Amazon: Traditional Gavião-Jê Naming Traditions pp. 41-53

Jaqueline Wajuru, Jociclei Macurap, Antonia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira, Ana Vilacy Galucio & Carla Daniele Costa
Engaging Wajuru /Wayoro and Makurap Communities in Collaborative Documentation: Recording, Learning, and Communicating pp. 54-74

Articles:

Justino Sarmento Rezende Tuyuka Dʉpó
Smell and Smoke of Ceremonial Tobacco: Articulating and Disarticulating the Actions of Cosmic Beings pp. 75-88

Silvio Sanches Barreto
The Forests Standing, Life for the World pp. 89-106

Research reports:
Gessiane Lobato Picanço
Initial Observations on Mundurukú Language Use and Vitality in Urban Settings pp. 107-118

Tânia Hachem, Antônio José de Souza (Wãtu) & Sidney da Silva Facundes
Place Names in the Valparaíso Territory: What They Tell Us About Apurinã (Arawak) History pp. 119-136

Jack Rueter & Niko Partanen
Language Technology for the Uralic Languages in Amazonian Contexts pp. 137-147

Essays:
Hanna Ellen Guttorm
‘Animal’ and ‘Animate’ in Connection to ‘Living’ and ‘Spirit’ in North Sámi and Finnish pp. 148-154

Francisco Apurinã
Reflection on Indigenous Objects That Leave and Return to Their Territories pp. 155-156

Justino Sarmento Rezende Tuyuka Dʉpó
Ʉtãpinopona Makʉ kũ Tʉgeñare – Reflections of a Tuyuka Scholar on the Importance of Knowledge Exchange between the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil) pp. 157-166

Dutkansearvvi dieđalaš áigečála
ISSN 2489-7930

Publisher:
Sámi Language and Culture Research Association

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