Lessons from a Quechua strongwoman : ideophony, dialogue, and perspective / Janis B. Nuckolls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuckolls, Janis B.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quechua language--Ecuador--Puyo (Pastaza)--Ideophone.

Quechua language.

Quechua language--Ecuador--Puyo (Pastaza)--Lexicology.

Quechua language--Ecuador--Puyo (Pastaza)--Semantics.

Culture--Semiotic models.

Culture.

Quechua women--Ecuador--Puyo (Pastaza)--Social conditions.

Quechua women.

Quechua philosophy--Ecuador--Puyo (Pastaza).

Quechua philosophy.

Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador)--Social conditions.

Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. This book is a fascinating look at ideophones--words that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers' discourse--both linguistic and cultural--because they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadena's utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety of voices. Cadena's narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans.

Contents:

On riveting objectivity

On ecological dialogism

On nonhuman role models and new correspondences

On the nature-to-culture continuum

On tenaciously persisting.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19147-9

0-8165-0179-3

OCLC:

763344567