Boruca, Bribri, and Cabécar



ETHNONYMS: For the Boruca ("village within the ashes"): Brunca, Brunka (name of the tribal group and the language, which also refers to ash); for the Bribri: Talamanca, Viceita, Se'ie ("like ourselves"), Bribriwak ("owners of mountainous territory"); for the Cabécar: Bianco, Talamanca, Kabekirwak ("owners of kbek," the quetzal bird).


Bibliography

Bozzoli de Wille, María Eugenia (1975a). "Birth and Death in the Belief System of the Bribri Indians of Costa Rica." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia. Translated as El nacimiento y la muerte entre los bribris. 1979. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.


Bozzoli de Wille, María Eugenia (1975b). Localidades indígenas costarricenses. San José: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA).


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Constenala Umaña, Adolfo (1991). Las lenguas del Area lntermermedia. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.


Constenla Umaña, Adolfo (1992). "Sobre el estudio diacrónico de las lenguas chibehas y su contribución al conocimiento del pasado de sus hablantes." Paper presented at the Sixth Congress of Anthropology, University of Los Andes, Colombia.


Stone, Doris Z. (1949). The Boruca of Costa Rica. Cambridge: Harvard University Printing Office.


Williams, Arya Rod (1976). "Boruca Borucac: An Indian Village of Costa Rica." B.A. dissertation, Pitzer College, Claremont, Calif.


MARÍA EUGENIA BOZZOLI DE WILLE

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