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This essay studies the Ecuadorian left in its specific organizational forms as well as examining its interventions in spaces of dialogue and dispute with other political forces…
La actual crisis civilizatoria, uno de cuyos factores detonantes fue la pandemia COVID-19 ha obligado a redefinir las lógicas de pensamiento y, por ende, las formas de…
In this article, I explore two healing experiences, one in Amazonian Ecuador and the other in Amazonian Peru. I argue that these experiences can be theorized through the idea of …
Ñapo Quichua relations of verse and structure are analyzed as they contribute to drama and the unfolding of theme in a myth narrative. The major organizational and grammatical…
La arqueología nos indica que los pueblos amazónicos habían desarrollado sociedades complejas en el alto Napo (Porras 1985) y en otros sitios miles de años antes del nacimiento de…
lado porque constituye un aporte ecuatoriano al debate especializado acerca del significado de las rebeliones indígenas, tema que ha ocupado un espacio importante en la…
In this article, I seek to introduce and explicate complexities of symbolic configurations (Kohn 2013; Taylor 1999, 2007; Whitten 2008, 2011; Uzendoski and Calapucha 2012) of…
There is considerable variation in the cultural dynamics and political processes in cases of native Amazonians incorporating Christian identities. Donald K. Pollock (1993:166,191)…
In the Quijos/Upper Napo region of the Western Amazonian frontier, long-distance exchange, markets, and verticality represent significant aspects of social organization that can…
Drawing on narratives and images related to mythology, I explore the relationships between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo…
In the twenty-first century books such as Michael Uzendoski’s The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (2005), Norman Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten’s Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power…
Anna Tsing (2004), like many other current theorists, has been writing innovative things about globalization. Her recent book problematizes "scale" in a way that questions the…