Yanesha '
The Yanesha , also called Amueshas , are an ethnic group in the rainforests of Peru . They live around 400 km north-east of Lima in an area in the Huánuco region , the Chanchamayo province and the Oxapampa province . In 2010, UNESCO recognized the Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha nature reserve in the “Selva Central” region as a biosphere reserve .
language
Their language is one of the Arawak languages and is spoken by around 9830 people (as of 2000). More recent counts still assume 7,000 people. In 1997 a book on grammar was published in Spanish and in 1998 a dictionary (Amuesha - Spanish).
Culture and society
The most important organizational unit in this tribe is the extended family. The Yanesha 'have an extremely large amount of traditional knowledge about medicinal plants and herbal medicine . In 2008 an international study was published with a description and examination of around 300 medicinal plants of the Yanesha '. The Yanesha 'consider nature, and especially plants, to be animated and worship them as gods of nature .
Name variants
The Yanesha 'are also known by the following names: Amage, Amagues, Amaje, Amajo, Amoishe, Amueixa, Amuese, Amuesha, Amuetamo, Lorenzo and Omage.
literature
- Fernando Santos-Granero: Writing history into the landscape. Yanesha notions of space and territoriality . In: Alexandre Surrallés, Pedro García Hierro (eds.): The Land Within. Indigenous Territory and the Perception of the Environment . IWGIA, 2005, ISBN 87-91563-11-9 , ISSN 0105-4503 , pp. 170–198 (English, digitized [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
Web links
- Yanesha. Database of indigenous peoples and indigenous people. Ministerio de Cultura Perú. Retrieved April 18, 2016 (Spanish).
- Nature park meets rainforest. Indians from the Peruvian Amazon campaign for climate and nature conservation. (PDF) Heilbronn voice . 2015, accessed April 15, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Des chercheurs veulent sauver la mémoire des amérindiens péruviens Eclairage . In: Swiss dispatch agency . February 12, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha. Biosphere Reserve Information. UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory . Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ↑ a b Yanesha '. A language of Peru. ethnologue.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ↑ Martha Duff-Tripp: Gramática del idioma Yanesha '(Amuesha) . Ed .: Mary Ruth Wise (= Series Lingüística Peruana . No. 43). Ministerio de Education. Instituto Lingüística de Verano, Peru 1997 ( digitized [PDF]).
- Jump up ↑ Martha Duff-Tripp: Diccionario Yanesha '(Amuesha) - Castellano . Ed .: Mary Ruth Wise (= Series Lingüística Peruana . No. 47). Ministerio de Education. Instituto Lingüística de Verano, Peru 1998 ( digital copy [PDF]).
- ↑ Asháninka and Yaneshá . In: Heilbronn voice . October 6, 2015, p. 28 .
- ↑ Geneviève Bourdy, Céline Valadeau, Joaquina Alban Castillo: Yato 'Ramuesh. Pare'shemats. Yanesha, Yato 'Ramuesh. Plantas medicinales yaneshas . Edition PRODAPP / IRD, Lima 2008, ISBN 978-2-7099-1658-5 ( digitized [PDF; 2.4 MB ]).