Education
Computer science and data science
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science — California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB)
Currently seeking an M.S. in Data Science — University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder)
Authorship and stewardship
MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA
Author · Engineer · Data Scientist
Dangriga, Belize
MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA is from Dangriga, Belize. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) and is currently seeking an M.S. in Data Science at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder).
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MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA — Author · Engineer · Data Scientist
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Name, instrument, and place
Maragañ literally means Shaka and is also my name. The maragañ is the male sacred rattle of the Buyei within the dabuyaba; the sisira (shaka), used outside of the dabuyaba, is female.
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Maragañ
Male sacred rattle of the Buyei within the dabuyaba; the author's name; literally Shaka.
sisira
Shaka used outside of the dabuyaba; female instrument.
The People Behind the Sources
Named Before the Census
They are named here before the exact-string census, so an abbreviated source label can never hide the people or the permission behind the work.
The People's Garífuna Dictionary
Roy Cayetano.
full permission; NGC-Belize orthography — the house standard
Lila Garífuna Diccionario
Salvador Suazo.
full rights granted — all books including the grammars
Garifuna Living Dictionary (GLD)
Virginia Martha Martinez-Ciego · Ben Flores · Pamela Munro — with input by Anita Lambey-Martinez, Allen Munro; community contributors Jo Baker, Lisa Carlos, Shantel Garcia, Marva Lewis, Luciana Lino, Jessica Palacio; Spanish help from Michael Galant.
not peripheral — a living community work of the Los Angeles Garifuna study group; full rights granted · https://livingdictionaries.app/garifuna/about
Lost and antiquated Garifuna works — corpus sharing
Archivist Dr. Petra Arana.
tremendous gratitude — the three Stochl volumes, the Catholic Mass (Pasos al Cielo, 1877), and the open-domain New Testament reached this encyclopedia through her stewardship
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