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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. What Is Storytelling?
  • Chapter 1. Somatic Poetry: Toward an Embodied Ethnopoetics
  • Chapter 2. Primordial Floods and the Expressive Body
  • Chapter 3. The Iluku Myth, the Sun, and the Anaconda
  • Chapter 4. Birds and Humanity: Womenâ€?s Songs
  • Chapter 5. The Twins and the Jaguars
  • Chapter 6. The Cuillurguna
  • Chapter 7. The Petroglyphs and the Twinsâ€? Ascent
  • Chapter 8. Cosmological Communitas in Contemporary Amazonian Music
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Appendix. Contents of the Media FilesReferences
  • Index

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