Puyo runa
Subtitle: imagery and power in modern Amazonia
By: Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten
Contributors: Whitten, Dorothea S., 1930-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252032394; 9780252074790
Subjects: Canelo Indians -- History; Canelo Indians -- Politics and government; Canelo Indians -- Social life and customs; Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador) -- History; Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador) -- Social life and customs; Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) -- History; Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index
Table of contents: title: Puyo runa and nayapi llacta; title: Cultural reflexivities, images, and locality; title: Empowerment, knowledge, and vision; title: Connections : creative expressions of Canelos Quichua women / Dorothea Scott Whitten; title: Imagery and the control of power; title: Cultural performance; title: Aesthetic contours : conjunctures, history, and transformation / Dorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten; title: Return of the yumbo / Norman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango; title: Causáunchimi! : processes of empowerment