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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador /

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 st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Uzendoski, Michael, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005].
Colección:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.