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

在Joel Sherzer博士的指导下，克莉丝汀贝尔女士将为她的博士论文进行实地研究，研究被称为karintaa的南提口头艺术形式的表演。Karintaa是秘鲁亚马逊地区Montetoni和Marankejari社区的Nantis即兴吟唱的诗歌。这个项目将描述卡林塔人在社会、文化和历史背景下的表演。它将研究这些表演在塑造个人之间的关系和塑造南蒂社会作为一个持久的关系网络中发挥的作用。使用以话语为中心的方法，贝尔将调查的特点，区分卡林塔从其他南提形式的发言，使卡林塔的一部分，一个更大的沟通系统。贝尔对卡林塔表演的描述和分析将基于她在蒙特托尼和马兰凯贾里制作的音频和视频记录。她将与Nanti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大贡献。首先，它涉及语言使用和社会组织之间的关系的一般性问题。第二，该项目将有助于语言学家和人类学家了解世界上最不为人所知的地区之一亚马逊地区的一个小土著群体的社会、文化和语言生活。第三，该项目将从以前未研究的语言中获得新的数据。在社区的许可下，原始录音以及相关的成绩单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，公众和未来几代人的国际访问。

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.