öttö edemi'jüdü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV öttö edemi'jüdü
Brazilian standard ättä edeemi'jhödö
New Tribes ättä edeemi'jödö

Etymology

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From öttö (village roundhouse) +‎ ödemi (song, chant) +‎ -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), thus ‘what was sung of the roundhouse’.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [əttə eɾ̠eːmiʔçɨɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

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öttö edemi'jüdü

  1. the several-day-long chant sung during the festival to inaugurate a new village roundhouse and eliminate the ritual pollution (amoi) present in its components
  2. the festival itself

References

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  • 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 65–66, 226:atta ademi hidi
  • Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä Edemi Jödö: the cosmosonics ritual of inauguration of the Ye’kwana round house” in Hawò, volume 1, page 1–31
  • Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä edemi jödö: singing the houses”, in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People[1], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, pages 96–109