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Cashinahua

Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) is applicant and coordinator of the project.

Dr. Eliane Camargo (Université Paris X – Nanterre and CELIA, Paris) is responsible for linguistic aspects of the documentation. She has studied the Cashinahua language from 1989 onward and since then published analyses of various aspects of the language. Her special interest in this project, apart from completing/ complementing her research for a concise grammar and a dictionary of the language, is to investigate into the linguistic and cognitive categorization in Cashinahua.

Dr. Philippe Erikson (Université Paris X – Nanterre), who has done extensive field-work and anthropological research in other Panoan communities (Matis, since 1985; Chacobo, since 1991), is responsible for cultural aspects of the project.

Sabine Reiter, M.A. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), is responsible for linguistic aspects of the documentation and doctoral candidate at the MPI. She participated from 2001 to 2006 as a researcher in the Awetí Language Documentation Project (see geographic overview, Dobes main).

Dr. George Nick Clements (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS, University of Paris III) is consultant for the phonological aspects of the project.

Members of the Cashinahua community in Peru and Brazil.

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