The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador /

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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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Main Author: Uzendoski, Michael, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005].
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Quechua Indians > Social life and customs.
Quechua Indians > Government relations.
Manners and customs.
Indians, Treatment of.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Quechua (Indiens) > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou) > Relations avec l'État.
Quechua (Indiens) > Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Indians, Treatment of > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
Quechua Indians > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Government relations.
Quechua Indians > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Social life and customs.
South America > Napo River Valley.
Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Napo, Vallee de la (Équateur et Perou) > Relations interethniques.
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Social life and customs.
Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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_
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780252092695

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