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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uzendoski, Michael, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- 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:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. The authors present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. What Is Storytelling?
- Chapter 1. Somatic Poetry: Toward an Embodied Ethnopoetics
- Chapter 2. Primordial Floods and the Expressive Body
- Chapter 3. The Iluku Myth, the Sun, and the Anaconda
- Chapter 4. Birds and Humanity: Women's Songs
- Chapter 5. The Twins and the Jaguars
- Chapter 6. The Cuillurguna
- Chapter 7. The Petroglyphs and the Twins' Ascent
- Chapter 8. Cosmological Communitas in Contemporary Amazonian Music
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix. Contents of the Media Files
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613895127
- 9781283582674
- 1283582678
- 9780252093609
- 0252093607
- OCLC:
- 809032414
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