The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium (Icm)) - Softcover

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Uzendoski, Michael

 
9780252072550: The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium (Icm))
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252072553 ISBN 13: 9780252072550
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2005

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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. 
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.  
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael A. Uzendoski is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Humanities at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador, and the author of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa.
 

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252072553
ISBN 13 
9780252072550
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Anzahl der Seiten
216
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