Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia

by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea S. Whitten

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252074793

ISBN13:9780252074790

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Americas Anthropology Cultural Ecuador History Latin America Native American Peru Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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