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Puyo Runa : Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
Otros Autores: Whitten, Dorothea S., 1930-2011
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Puyo runa and nayapi llacta
  • Cultural reflexivities, images, and locality
  • Empowerment, knowledge, and vision
  • Connections : creative expressions of Canelos Quichua women / Dorothea Scott Whitten
  • Imagery and the control of power
  • Cultural performance
  • Aesthetic contours : conjunctures, history, and transformation / Dorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten
  • Return of the yumbo / Norman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango
  • Causáunchimi! : processes of empowerment.