{"product_id":"puyo-runa-9780252074790","title":"Puyo Runa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. This book presents a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If there is a single book that is capable of condensing and addressing all of the issues of exchange, articulation with global economies, and ethnogenesis in Amazonia, it is Whitten and Whitten's book \u003ci\u003ePuyo Runa\u003c\/i\u003e.--\u003ci\u003eEthnohistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"As a convincing and accessible account of one people's struggle to comprehend and overcome the challenges of colonial history and a tumultuous geopolitical moment, \u003ci\u003ePuyo Runa\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a powerful argument for the essential perspective that only long-term, rigorous, and imaginative ethnography can provide.\"--\u003ci\u003eAnthropological Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This career capstone volume will be broadly useful for all social scientists as well as Latin Americanists. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements   ix\u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation   xxi\u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Pronouns, People, and Pseudonyms   xxv\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  1. Puyo Runa and Nayapi Llacta   1\u003cbr\u003e  2. Cultural Reflexivities, Images, and Locality   30\u003cbr\u003e  3. Empowerment, Knowledge, and Vision   59\u003cbr\u003e  4. Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua Women \u003ci\u003eDorothea Scott Whitten\u003c\/i\u003e   90\u003cbr\u003e  5. Imagery and the Control of Power   119\u003cbr\u003e  6. Cultural Performance   140\u003cbr\u003e  7. Aesthetic Contours: History, Conjuncture, and Transformation \u003ci\u003eDorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten\u003c\/i\u003e   167\u003cbr\u003e  8. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito \u003ci\u003eNorman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango\u003c\/i\u003e   200\u003cbr\u003e  9. \u003ci\u003eCausaunchimi!\u003c\/i\u003e: Processes of Empowerment   231\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Glossary   259\u003cbr\u003e  References   271\u003cbr\u003e  Index   293\u003cbr\u003e   ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400480530775,"sku":"9780252074790","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252074790.jpg?v=1730470790","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/puyo-runa-9780252074790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}