The Ecology of the Spoken Word : Amazonian Storytelling and the Shamanism among the Napo Runa /

The Ecology of the Spoken Word offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Uzendoski, Michael, 1968- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Calapucha-Tapuy, Edith Felicia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Quechua
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Storytelling.
Shamanism.
Quechua mythology.
Quechua Indians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Chamanisme > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou)
Art de conter > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou)
Quechua (Indiens) > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou) > Chants et musique.
Mythologie quechua > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou)
Shamanism > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
Storytelling > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
Quechua Indians > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Songs and music.
Quechua mythology > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
South America > Napo River Valley.
Songs and music.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The Ecology of the Spoken Word offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and appreciate Napo Runa aesthetic expression._x000B__x000B_Like many other indigenous peoples, the Napo Runa create meaning through language and other practices that do not correspond to the communicative or social assumptions of Western culture. Language itself is only a part of a communicative world that includes plants, animals, and the landscape. In the Napo Runa worldview, storytellers are shamans who use sound and form to create relationships with other people and beings from the natural and spirit worlds. Guiding readers into Napo Runa ways of thinking and being, Uzendoski and Calapucha-Tapuy weave exacting translations into an interpretive argument with theoretical implications for understanding oral traditions, literacy, new technologies, and language._x000B__x000B_Reinforcing the authors' argument that words are only a small part of storytelling reality, a companion website with photos, audio files, and videos of original performances offers readers an opportunity to more deeply understand the beauty of performance and complexity of sound in Native Amazonian verbal expression.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780252093609

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