Secoya
The Secoya (own name: Siekóya Pâi , "people of the striped river") are a South American ethnic group in the western Amazon region . Their language belongs to the family of Tucano languages . Only about 350 Secoya still live in northeast Ecuador (here mainly in a 296 km² Territorio Indígena within the Cuyabeno nature reserve ) and 500 in Peru .
Web links
- Documentation project for the Secoya language
- Languages and Peoples of the Earth: Secoya
- Languages of the world: Secoya
literature
- María Susana Cipolletti: Voices of the past, voices of the present. The Western Tukano Amazonia 1637-1993 . Münster: LIT, 1997. (Ethnological studies, 32)
- María Susana Cipoletti: La concepción del cosmos de un shaman "Secoya" (Amazonia ecuatoriana) . In: Revista española de anthropología americana , Vol. 15 (1985), pp. 305-322.
- María Susana Cipolletti and Fernando Payaguaje: La fascinación del mal. Historia de vida de un shamán secoya de la Amazonia ecuatoriana . Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2008.
- María Susana Cipolletti: Hacia un shamanismo "light"? Cambios y adaptaciones en procesos religiosos en la Amazonía peruano-ecuatoriana (siglos XVIII al XXI) . In: Anthropos , Vol. 106, No. 2 (2011), pp. 463-473.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Global ICCA Database TERRITORIOS A'I COFAN, SIEKÓYA PI, SIONA SHUAR1 Y KICHWA ZONA BAJA DE LA RESERVA DE PRODUCCIÓN FAUNÍSTICA CUYABENO, ECUADOR, pdf version , accessed on February 11, 2019.