conima

(ˈkɒnɪmə)

a gum resin obtained from hemlock Conium maculatum

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conima - a gum resin from the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum

gum - any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

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Tierras y Control del Espacio: los Caciques de Conima Contra los de Guaycho (1582-1586)

DEL REGISTRO DOCUMENTAL AL TERRITORIO COLONIAL: DISCURSOS, PRACTICAS Y RELACIONES DE PODER EN EL LAGO TITICACA (1570-1630)

En la localidad de Conima, Puno, el agua que proviene de [la laguna de] Mamacocha o de algun manantial se le llama "yerno" (tollqa).

Etnobotanica, modernidad y pedagogia critica del lugar

Las embarcaciones partian directamente de Puquis hacia Bolivia, Moho, Conima, Tilali, Hanco Hanco, Vilquechico y las comunidades de la peninsula de Huarisco de Huancane, llevando carga y pasajeros.

Las inundaciones en Huancane

Thomas Turino compares two rural musical cultures of the Peruvian highlands: the district of Conima in the Aymara-speaking province of Huancane, Puno, and the Kechua-speaking province of Canas in the department of Cuzco.

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Cultures of South America, Central America, and Mexico

here the case of the panpipe groups at Conima in the Peruvian Andes,

Brazilian identities and musical performances

In short, this is a valuable addition to a group of recent books on Peruvian dance and culture: Musica, danzas y mascaras en los Andes (cited above), Elisabeth den Otter's Music and Dance of Indians end Mestizos in an Andean Valley of Peru (Delft: Eburon, 1985) for music and dance in the Callejon de Huaylas, and Thomas Turino's Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) for instrumental ensembles in Conima (north-shore Titicaca and Lima.

Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes

Thomas Turino's ethnographic contexts are the altiplano district of Conima, Peru and the urban sprawl of Lima, in both of which regions he pursued fieldwork in 1984-86, having previously (1977, 1981-82) pursued research in Cuzco and Puno.

Moving away From Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration