The ecology of the spoken word : Amazonian storytelling and shamanism among the Napo Runa /

The Ecology of the Spoken Word 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, an...

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Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Uzendoski, Michael, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors:	Calapucha-Tapuy, Edith Felicia
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Quechua
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012
Subjects:	Quechua mythology > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Quechua Indians > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Songs and music. Storytelling > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Shamanism > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) Electronic books.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. What Is Storytelling?
Chapter 1. Somatic Poetry: Toward an Embodied Ethnopoetics
Chapter 2. Primordial Floods and the Expressive Body
Chapter 3. The Iluku Myth, the Sun, and the Anaconda
Chapter 4. Birds and Humanity: Womenâ€?s Songs
Chapter 5. The Twins and the Jaguars
Chapter 6. The Cuillurguna
Chapter 7. The Petroglyphs and the Twinsâ€? Ascent
Chapter 8. Cosmological Communitas in Contemporary Amazonian Music
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix. Contents of the Media FilesReferences
Index

The ecology of the spoken word : Amazonian storytelling and shamanism among the Napo Runa /

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