Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia - Tapa blanda

Whitten, Norman E.; Whitten, Dorothea Scott

 
9780252074790: Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
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ISBN 10: 0252074793 ISBN 13: 9780252074790
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Sinopsis

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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Norman E. Whitten Jr. is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and he coauthored and collaborated with Dorothea Scott Whitten, a former research associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on numerous books and articles, including Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics.

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University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252074793
ISBN 13 
9780252074790
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Número de páginas
336
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