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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia - Whitten, Norman E, and Whitten, Dorothea Scott
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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 artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active ...

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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia 2008, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252074790

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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia 2008, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252032394

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