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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
Norman E. Whitten
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Description for Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
Paperback. 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. This book presents a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 photographs; 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 535.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074790
SKU
V9780252074790
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About Norman E. Whitten
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
Constitutes one of the richest and far-reaching anthropological texts on Amazonian Ecuador. . . . An enjoyable and important read.
Latin American Studies This career capstone volume will be broadly useful for all social scientists as well as Latin Americanists. . . . Highly recommended.
Choice A remarkably innovative enthnography.
Anthropos If there is a single ... Read more
Latin American Studies This career capstone volume will be broadly useful for all social scientists as well as Latin Americanists. . . . Highly recommended.
Choice A remarkably innovative enthnography.
Anthropos If there is a single ... Read more