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

by Michael Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208103X
• ISBN13: 9780252081033
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.7"