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New Digital Archive Highlights Traditions of the Baniwa people in the Amazon

  • Aug 6, 2020

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America presents a new digital collection compiling research conducted from 1976 to the present on the Baniwa, a northern Arawak–speaking people who live both in villages in the Northwest Amazon and in urban contexts. The digitization was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

The collection is multimedia, consisting of over 81 hours of audio, 16 hours of video and 2,300 scanned pages, and includes a large amount of analog material that has been digitized and made accessible to indigenous communities and researchers.

Read the full article from the UT Libraries blog.

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