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Hardcover The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and the Shamanism Among the Napo Runa Book

ISBN: 0252036565

ISBN13: 9780252036569

The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and the Shamanism Among the Napo Runa

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This volume 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, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and appreciate Quichua aesthetic expression. Guiding readers into Quichua ways of thinking and being--in which...

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