1. MODULE 01 — 1. WESTIORA: INTRODUCTION

    2. MODULE 01 — 2. RABÉ: ADJECTIVES

    3. MODULE 01 — 3. KIMISHA: VERBS PART 1

    4. MODULE 01 — 4. CHOSKO: VERBS PART 2

    5. MODULE 01 — BEWABO - SONGS

    6. MODULE 01 — ONAN JOIBO - RESOURCES

    1. MODULE 02 — 1. WESTIORA: WELCOME TO MODULE 2

    2. MODULE 02 — 2. RABÉ: ICARO STRUCTURES

    3. MODULE 02 — 3. KIMISHA: ICAROS AND PAST TENSE

    4. MODULE 02 — 4. CHOSKO: ICAROS AND NEGATION

    5. MODULE 02 — BEWABO - SONGS

About this course

  • $211.11
  • 11 lessons
  • 17 hours of video content
  • Introduction to Shipibo-Konibo cosmovision
  • Alphabet, pronounciation tongue twisters, dynamic vocabulary building exercises
  • Introduction to ícaro and basic suffixes

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS


Eli Sánchez — Pakan Meni

Professor Eli Sánchez (Pakan Meni) is a teacher and a leading expert on the Shipibo-Konibo language. He has worked on many language projects, including primary school textbooks, traditional storybooks, and official translations  as a founding member of ARIAP.




Eva Melendez — Xawan Rabi

Eva Melendez (Xawan Rabi) is a secondary education student at the National University of Ucayali (UNU), and artist with the Kené Néte collective. As winner of the Soi Noma contest in 2019, she became a  representative of young Indigenous women, and is currently the vice-president of Alianza Arkana.




Brian Best — Wexa Nita

Brian Best is a linguistic anthropologist and student of the Shipibo-Konibo language since 2003. He has a master's degree in Native American Languages and Linguistics and works with ARIAP to create an online Shipibo-Konibo dictionary and other language projects. He has also been a long-term student and facilitator of plant medicine under Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate).




Macarena Arias — Chonon Jisbe

Macarena Arias is a Peruvian living in Ucayali and student of the Shipibo-Konibo language since 2016, . She began learning with Professor Eli Sánchez and continued through her work with Alianza Arkana and plant medicine with Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate). She is an artist, SE Practitioner, Expressive Arts Facilitator, and works with her spouse at Koshi Ayahuasca Retreat Center.