The Ashaninka Perene narrator Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb from Bajo Marankiari, Chanchamayo, Peru tells about the past burial practices of burning the dead or dumping the corpse in the river, the rituals that she witnessed.
The Ashaninka Perene narrator Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb from Bajo Marankiari, Chanchamayo, Peru tells about the past burial practices of burning the dead or dumping the corpse in the river, the rituals that she witnessed.
The Ashaninka Perene narrator Gregorio Santos Pérez from Villa Perene, Chanchamayo, Peru tells a story about how sorcery or matzitaantsi came into being.
The mother-daughter team of Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb and Delia Rosas Rodriguez demonstrate how to roast chicken in the fire. The Ashaninka roasting method is simple: first the chicken is soaked in orange juice, then salted, wrapped in leaves, and placed on the fire rack over a smoldering fire.
Ashaninkas are poets of names. They tell stories about lakes, brooks and streams, rivers, hills, mountain gorges, caves and other landscape elements, which have been given names for a reason. This story is told by the narrator from Bajo Marankiari MOISES SANTOS ROJAS. Once upon a time, there was a mysterious cave to deer would go to escape from Ashaninka hunters. If the hunter enters the cave, he will never return. The story explains their disappearance…
The comic narrative told by Luis Mauricio Rosa features the prankster squirrel Miiri who plays a trick on his cousin jaguar Masontsori. As the story goes, when the jaguar was passing by, the squirrel pretended to be crushing his testicles (those were of course wild nuts) with a stone and praising the taste of the nuts. The jaguar was coaxed into imitating the crushing technique using his own testicles. When the jaguar hit them with the stone, the…
The performer from the native community of Bajo Marankiari Paulina Garcia Ñate sings the song which she heard from her mother after she had lost her toddler son to illness. The song expresses the mother's depth of sorrow and the finality of the family's loss emphasizing that the surviving family will never see the child come back to play in the house. This song is a rarely seen expression of the death-related emotion since Ashaninkas were known to…
The channel showcases videos about indigenous speakers of the Arawak language of Ashaninka Perene from Peru whose cultural and linguistic heritage is on the way to moribundity. The videos capture Ashaninka extant customs and traditions and document their fascinating verbal art. The stories and songs about warriors, shamans, witches, and mythical creatures inhabiting the surrounding rainforest and the river Perene reveal a
The channel showcases videos about indigenous speakers of the Arawak language of Ashaninka Perene from Peru whose cultural and linguistic heritage is on the way to moribundity. The videos capture Ashaninka extant customs and traditions and document their fascinating verbal art. The stories and songs about warriors, shamans, witches, and mythical creatures inhabiting the surrounding rainforest and the river Perene reveal a strange, complex, and fascinating world.
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