Tracing social history from synchronic linguistic and ethnographic data: The prehistory of resígaro contact with Bora

"...The paper is structured as follows. The following section gives a brief introduction to the Resígaro people and language. The third section describes the Resígaros’ cultural assimilation to Boras. The fourth and fifth sections review what is known about Bora influence on Resígaro vocabulary and grammar. The sixtth section traces the history of contact between the Resígaro and Bora peoples and the final section concludes this paper [...] Currently, there are only two fully fluent speakers of Resígaro left, who live in an Ocaina community called Nueva Esperanza, on the Yaguasyacu River, in Loreto, Peru..."