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Puyo runa : imagery and power in modern Amazonia / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten.
Van Pelt Library F3722.1.C23 W463 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canelo Indians--History.
- Canelo Indians.
- Canelo Indians--Politics and government.
- Canelo Indians--Social life and customs.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador)--History.
- Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador).
- Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador)--Social life and customs.
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--History.
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and studied one such people, the Canelos Quichua, for nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms.
- Contents:
- Puyo runa and nayapi llacta
- Cultural reflexivities, images, and locality
- Empowerment, knowledge, and vision
- Connections : creative expressions of Canelos Quichua women / Dorothea Scott Whitten
- Imagery and the control of power
- Cultural performance
- Aesthetic contours : conjunctures, history, and transformation / Dorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten
- Return of the yumbo / Norman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango
- Causáunchimi! : processes of empowerment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252032394
- 025203239X
- 9780252074790
- 0252074793
- OCLC:
- 129952461
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