Doctoral Dissertation Research: Composing relationships: Extemporaneous Nanti karintaa poetry in Peruvian Amazonia

在乔尔·谢尔泽博士的指导下，克里斯汀·贝尔女士将为她的博士论文进行实地研究，内容是南蒂口头艺术形式卡林塔的表演。卡林塔是秘鲁亚马逊地区蒙泰托尼和马拉凯贾里社区的南蒂斯即兴朗诵的诗歌。该项目将在其社会、文化和历史背景下描述卡林塔表演。它将考察这些表演在塑造个人之间的关系以及将南蒂社会塑造为一个持久的关系网络方面所发挥的作用。使用以话语为中心的方法，贝尔将研究卡林塔语区别于其他南特语言形式的特征，以及使卡林塔语成为更大交际系统的一部分的特征。贝尔对卡林塔表演的描述和分析将基于她在蒙泰托尼和Marankejari制作的音频和视频记录。她将与南帝顾问密切合作，分析这些录音。这项研究对人类社会的科学理解做出了三项重大贡献。首先，它讨论了有关语言使用和社会组织之间的关系的一般性问题。其次，该项目将有助于语言学家和人类学家了解亚马逊地区一个小土著群体的社会、文化和语言生活，亚马逊是世界上最不为人所知的地区之一。第三，该项目将从一种以前没有研究过的语言中产生新的数据。在社区允许的情况下，原始录音以及相关的文字记录和分析文本将在几个地方存档(包括www.ailla.org)，以确保感兴趣的学者、学生、公众和未来几代南特人能够在国际上接触到它们。

Under the direction of Dr. Joel Sherzer, Ms. Christine Beier will conduct field research for her doctoral dissertation on performances of the Nanti verbal art form known as karintaa. Karintaa is extemporaneous chanted poetry performed by Nantis in the communities of Montetoni and Marankejari in Peruvian Amazonia. This project will describe karintaa performances within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. It will examine the role that these performances play in shaping relationships among individuals and in shaping Nanti society as an enduring network of relationships. Using a discourse-centered approach, Beier will investigate the features that distinguish karintaa from other Nanti forms of speaking and that make karintaa part of a larger communicative system. Beier's description and analysis of karintaa performances will be based on audio and video recordings that she makes in Montetoni and Marankejari. She will analyze these recordings in close collaboration with Nanti consultants. This research makes three significant contributions to the scientific understanding of human societies. First, it addresses general questions regarding the relationship between language use and social organization. Second, the project will contribute to linguists' and anthropologists' understanding of the social, cultural, and verbal life of a small indigenous group in Amazonia, one of the least known areas of the world. Third, the project will result in new data from a previously unstudied language. With the communities' permission, the original recordings as well as related transcripts and analytical texts will be archived in several places (including www.ailla.org) to ensure their international accessibility to interested scholars, students, the general public, and future generations of Nantis.