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Faced with the danger of extinction of native languages, the project “Documenting languages of the People of the Center", carried through the DoBeS (Dokumentatio Bedrohter Sprachen) program of mpi (Max Planck Institute) in partnership with the iiap (Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana), illustrates the uses of language documentation as a means to safeguard and protect the Amazon sociocultural heritage. We present here a quick characterization of the People Center, one of the self-designations of the communities in which the project has been carried out, as well as of some of the software and formats used for the sociocultural documentation. Finally, we expose projections for the transfer of the use of those methodological tools to the national and regional communities of speakers of endangered languages and to those who study them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After attempting to paint the multiple beings inhabiting the oral history of his Bora and Uitoto ancestors, Brus Rubio found in the daily gestures of the men and women of his community, a technique of observation and reproduction of moving figures of his own, suited to express his perception of the history of the peoples of the Ampiyacu River. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]