Birui jiibina ruana a te: “Today the Coca Plant Speaks of Songs”. Notes for an Anthropology of Music among the Uitoto-Murui Birui jiibina ruana a te: "hoje a coca fala de canto" . Notas para uma antropologia da música entre os Uitoto-murui

This work proposes an ethnographic approach to the musical universe –in particular the practice of chanting– of the indigenous group usually known as Uitoto (= Huitoto, Witoto), examining the case of one of its subgroups, the Murui from the Caraparana River, Colombian Amazon. This is partial material, but it proves revealing of the musical thinking and action within this group. It starts with the provocative question: What is the first lesson for someone who is beginning to learn chants? Or, more adequately: Where does the learning of chants begin?