Animales Matsés

This interactive educational application features drawings of the local fauna of the Amazon rainforest of Peru, with the names of the animals in the Matses language and local Spanish, accompanied by audio in the Matses language that are played on click. Animals are taxonomically organized according to division, order, and family to which they belong. The main objectives are to familiarize indigenous Matses students with scientific classification and to promote the intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge. It can be used by emerging readers to learn to read at word level in Matses. Those who are not Matses will find this application useful to become familiar with the fauna of Amazonian Peru and to learn the vernacular terms in Spanish for these animals.
This 129-page app is the first of its kind. It illustrates the incredibly high animal diversity found in the western Amazon along with the sophisticated traditional ecological knowledge of the Matses people with illustrations of 504 species of animals drawn by artist Matses Guillermo Nëcca Pëmen Mënquë. Contains audio clips with Matses names of the 504 species in the book. The application contains pictures of almost all animal species that have names in the Matses language. Illustrations of species in all major categories of animals present in Matses territory, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, centipedes, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks, worms, and other invertebrates. More than 200 animal families are represented in 82 orders. Dr. David w. Fleck in consultation with the Matses elders using published field guides, photographs, and audio recordings of animal calls. Dr. Fleck is a biologist and linguist who lives with the Matses and has been conducting biological, linguistic, ethnographic and ethnobiological research with them since 1994.
This interactive educational application features drawings of the local fauna of the Amazonian rainforest of Peru, with names of the animals in the Matses language and in local Spanish, accompanied by sound clips of the Matses names that play when clicked. The animals are organized taxonomically according to the phylum, order, and family to which they belong. The main purposes are to familiarize indigenous Matses students with scientific classification and to encourage intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge. It can be used by emergent readers to learn to read at the word level in Matses. Non-Matses will find this application useful for familiarizing themselves with the fauna of Amazonian Peru, and for learning the vernacular Spanish terms for these animals.
This 129-page application is the first of its kind. It illustrates the amazingly high animal diversity found Western Amazonia along with the sophisticated traditional ecological knowledge of the Matses people with illustrations of 504 species of animals drawn by Matses artist Guillermo Nëcca Pëmen Mënquë. It contains audio clips for the Matses names of all 504 species in the book. The application contains drawings of almost all the animal species that have names in the Matses language. It illustrates species in all the major categories of animals present in the Matses territory, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, centipedes, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks, worms and other invertebrates. More than 200 animal families in 82 orders are represented. Matching of Matses animal names to animal species was carried out by Dr. David w. Fleck in consultation with Matses elders using published field guides, photographs and audio recordings of animal calls. Dr. Fleck is a biologist and linguist who has been living with the Matses and conducting biological, linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnobiological research with them since 1994.