wejumma
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wehumma]
Noun
wejumma
- any ceremonial chant (aichudi) used to call or attract people to a place or person, for example to promote the growth of a village or to call the double/spirit (ökato) of a sick person back from death
- Antonym: wesankwa
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wejumma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “wehu:mma”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 48
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, page 90–91