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AHÉWA LIKÍʔI: EL RELOJ Y LA JORNADA ENTRE LOS TOBA DEL OESTE DE FORMOSA (GUAYCURÚ, ARGENTINA)

2018; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22456/1982-6524.75424

1982-6524

Cecilia Paula Gómez, María Belén Carpio,

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

In this paper, we analyze the strategies used to identify the moments of the day by the Toba from Western Formosa (Argentina), and the morphosyntactic structure of the nominal constructions that encode them. The methods to signal the moments of the daily routine recorded involve the use of the arm, a gnomon, ”shades”, other celestial objects distinct from the sun, animals, and cell phones. The most relevant segments of the journey to be identified by each of these indicators of moments of the day are departure to and arrival from the forest. They distinguish two qualitative distinct but complementary moments: day and night. Hence, from an ethnographic and linguistic approach, we demonstrate that the sun is the time indicator that is directly associated to the clock, and study the perspective from which this link is made.