ISBN:
9780252092695
,
0252092694
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 198 p. :)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
DDC:
305.8983230866416
Keywords:
Quechua Indians Social life and customs
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
;
Quechua Indians Government relations
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
;
Indians, Treatment of Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
;
Quechua Indians Social life and customs
;
Quechua Indians Government relations
;
Indians, Treatment of
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Ethnic relations
;
Indians, Treatment of
;
Manners and customs
;
Quechua Indians ; Government relations
;
Quechua Indians ; Social life and customs
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Ethnic relations
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Social life and customs
;
South America
;
Napo River Valley
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Social life and customs
;
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Ethnic relations
;
South America ; Napo River Valley
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's years of fieldwork in indigenous communities, Michael Uzendoski's theoretically informed work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. _x000B_Written in a clear and readable style, 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, spirits of the forest), which are considered to be subjects that share spiritual substance, or samai. Throughout the book, value is revealed as 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. _x000B_
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index
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