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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
ödemi
- long (2–3 days) communal ceremonial chant performed at major events and festivals to purify involved objects of ritual pollution/taboo (amoi)
- Coordinate term: aichudi
- song, chant (in general)
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ödemi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “öde:mi eda:mo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “ademi”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 175:
ademi: Ademi is the most common term for ‘song’ and is applied to the long, ceremonial performances of the Watunna. When the suffix hidi is added, a verb form [sic] is made meaning ‘to sing’, as in Adahe ademi hidi, ‘To sing conuco’.
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 65–67: “ademi”