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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael A Uzendoski; Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy |
ISBN: | 9780252036569 0252036565 |
OCLC Number: | 1040982691 |
Description: | 245 p. |
Contents: | Introduction: What is Storytelling?; 1. Somatic Poetry, Towards an Embodied Ethnopoetics; 2: Primordial Floods and the Expressive Body; 3: The Iluku Myth, the Sun, and the Anaconda: Axis Mundi Relationality in Amazonian Quichua Mythology; 4: Birds and Humanity: Women's Songs; 5: The Twins and the Jaguars: Verse-Analysis of a Napo Quichua Myth-Narrative; 6: The Cuillurguna; 7:The Petroglyphs and The Twins Ascent; 8: Cosmological Communitas in Contemporary Amazonian Music; 9: Conclusion References; Contents of the Media Files |
Responsibility: | by Michael A Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy. |
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"Ought to adorn the shelves not only of Amazonianists and ethnomusicologists, but also of anyone, anthropologist or otherwise, who is interested in the history and practice of story-telling in all its various, equally beautiful and equally valid forms."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "The Ecology of the Spoken Word makes a very significant contribution to the fields of Amazonian Quichua ethnoaesthetics and linguistic culture. The work is stimulating, exciting, and provocative, and the documentation is excellent. This book will be useful to cultural anthropologists and others interested in applied education and public policy-related disciplines because it helps clarify how knowledge is conceived by the Quichua people."--Janis B. Nuckolls, author of Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective "An enlightening contribution for anyone interested in storytelling, Amazonian culture, or Quichua language."--Journal of Folklore Research "A fascinating and successful study of an oral tradition, with implications far beyond the Amazonian context."--Anthropology Review Database Read more...

