Marie-Claude Mattéi-Müller is a Franco-Venezuelan

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

and ethnolinguist, professor of the

Central University of Venezuela Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

. She has published several works about the indigenous languages in Venezuela. Among the languages included in her works are the yanomamö idioms, panare,

hodï The Hodï or Jotï (from the Hodï word for "people") are a small group of indigenous people of the Americas, indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela. The last census held in Venezuela, in 2011, registered 982 individuals ...

and the yawarana. In 2009 Mattéi-Müller received the National Prize of Science and Technology, mention on Social Sciences, along Jacinto Serowe.

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Marie Claude Matthéi-Müller en proyecto de documentación de idiomas indígenas de la National Science Foundation
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