Puyo Runa

Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054199
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puyo Runa written by Norman E. Whitten and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms.

Author : Eli Bartra
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822331704
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Gender written by Eli Bartra and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes Latin American and Caribbean folk art from a feminist perspective, considering the issue of gender in the production and circulation of popular art produced by women./div

Author : Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.)
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sicuanga Runa written by Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.) and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.)
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacha Runa written by Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.) and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Santos-Granero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653229X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia written by Fernando Santos-Granero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life in the face of the multiple failures of millennial capitalism, Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia deliberately appropriates a concept developed by classical economists to understand wealth accumulation in capitalist societies in order to denaturalize it and assess its applicability in non-capitalist kin-based societies. Mindful of the widespread discontent generated by the ongoing economic crisis in postindustrial societies as well as the renewed attempts by social scientists to measure more effectively what we consider to be “development” and “economic success,” the contributors to this volume contend that the study of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia provides not only an exceptional opportunity to apprehend native notions of wealth, poverty, and the good life, but also to engage in a critical revision of capitalist constructions of living well. Through ethnographic analysis and thought-provoking new approaches to contemporary and historical cases, the book’s contributors reveal how indigenous views of wealth—based on the abundance of intangibles such as vitality, good health, biopower, and convivial relations—are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, differing substantially from those in capitalist societies more inclined toward the avid accumulation and consumption of material goods.

Author : Leo A. Despres
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110898179
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies written by Leo A. Despres and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Browman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808846
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Primitives, and Proletariats written by David L. Browman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elias Sevilla-Casas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110807580
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Expansion and Indigenous Peoples written by Elias Sevilla-Casas and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen I. Safa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808889
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Development written by Helen I. Safa and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496228804
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River written by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography explores ways in which Amazonian Kichwa narrative, ritual, and concepts of place link extended kin groups into a regional society within Amazonian Ecuador.