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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador / Michael Uzendoski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uzendoski, Michael, 1968-
- Series:
- Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium
- Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quechua Indians--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Social life and customs.
- Quechua Indians.
- Quechua Indians--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Government relations.
- Indians, Treatment of--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Ethnic relations.
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Michael Uzendoski's theoretically informed work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's years of fieldwork in indigenous communities, The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador presents theoretical issues of value, poetics, and kinship as linked to the author's intersubjective experiences in Napo Runa culture. Drawing on insights from the theory of gift and value, Uzendoski argues that Napo Runa culture personifies value by transforming things into people through a process of subordinating them to human relationships. While many traditional exchange models treat the production of things as inconsequential, the Napo Runa understand production to involve a relationship with natural beings (plants, animals, and spirits of the forest) that they believe share spiritual substance, or samai. Value is the outcome of a complicated poetics of transformation by which things and persons are woven into kinship forms that define daily social and ritual life.
- Contents:
- Introduction : value and ethnographic translation
- Sinzhi runa : the birth process and the development of the will
- The poetics of social form
- Ritual marriage and making kin
- The transformation of affinity into consanguinity
- Meat, manioc brew, and desire
- The return of Jumandy : value and the indigenous uprising of 2001.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613921598
- 9781283609142
- 1283609142
- 9780252092695
- 0252092694
- OCLC:
- 815477965
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