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The ecology of the spoken word : Amazonian storytelling and shamanism among the Napo Runa / Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy.
Penn Museum Library GR133.E22 N378 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uzendoski, Michael, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Quechua
- Subjects (All):
- Quechua mythology--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Quechua mythology.
- Quechua Indians--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Songs and music.
- Quechua Indians.
- Storytelling--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Storytelling.
- Shamanism--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Shamanism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Includes translations from Quechua.
- Summary:
- Uzendoski (anthropology, Florida State U.) and Calapucha-Tapuy, a native of Napo, Ecuador and translator of Napo Quichua stories and songs, present a theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology and music, to help readers appreciate the beauty and complexity of Amazonian Quichua poetic expressions. They are also committed to articulating Napo Runa performative practices to indicate what storytelling can teach about language, communication, culture, and experience. Their topics include somatic poetry, primordial floods and the expressive body, women's songs, the twins and the jaguars, and cosmological communitas in contemporary Amazonian music. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Somatic Poetry: Toward an Embodied Ethnopoetics 23
- Chapter 2 Primordial Floods and the Expressive Body 41
- Chapter 3 The Iluku Myth, the Sun, and the Anaconda 58
- Chapter 4 Birds and Humanity: Women's Songs (with the Assistance of Mark Hertica) 79
- Chapter 5 The Twins and the Jaguars 100
- Chapter 6 The Cuillurguna 135
- Chapter 7 The Petroglyphs and the Twins' Ascent 157
- Chapter 8 Cosmological Communitas in Contemporary Amazonian Music 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252036569
- 0252036565
- OCLC:
- 761380120
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