Puyo Runa
eBook - ePub

Puyo Runa

Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Puyo Runa

Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation
  8. Notes on Pronouns, People, and Pseudonyms
  9. 1. Puyo Runa and Nayapi Llacta
  10. 2. Cultural Reflexivities, Images, and Locality
  11. 3. Empowerment, Knowledge, and Vision
  12. 4. Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua Women
  13. 5. Imagery and the Control of Power
  14. 6. Cultural Performance
  15. 7. Aesthetic Contours: History, Conjuncture, and Transformation
  16. 8. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito
  17. 9. Causáunchimi!: Processes of Empowerment
  18. Glossary
  19. References
  20. Index