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Amazonian Kichwa Proper: Ethnolinguistic Domain in Pan‐Indian Ecuador

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2012
Pan‐Indian organizing and language standardization are key strategies for indigenous activists advancing cultural legitimacy in the contemporary Latin American sociopolitical order. Planned ethnolinguistic unification by Kichwa activists in Ecuador is paradoxically fueling ethnogenesis among Amazonian Kichwas who see language standardization as a ...
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Characterization of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (kap) of breastfeeding in amazonian Kichwa women of Ecuador

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 2021
D. Maldonado, L. Valencia-Erazo, D. Santillan, A. Silva-Ochoa, K. Gavin Quinchuela, M.G. Zurita-Benavides, W. Vanden Berghe, A. Orellana Manzano   +7 more
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MEDICAL ETHNOBOTANY OF THE AMAZONIAN KICHWA COMMUNITY OF SAN JOSÉ DE PAYAMINO, ECUADOR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL FIELD COURSE

Acta Horticulturae, 2014
B.J. Doyle, G.S. Svobodny, R. Batallas, D. Fernández   +3 more
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Feeling with the Land:Llakichinaand the Emotional Life of Relatedness in Amazonian Kichwa Thinking

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2022
AbstractThis article explores how traditional Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon experience and practice emotional life. In particular, we focus on the centrality accorded to acts intended to elicit compassion in others (llakichina) and on the role these acts play in holding communities together.
Tod D Swanson, Jarrad Reddekop
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Change scenarios in Amazonian Kichwa rural communities, Anzu valley, Ecuador

2019
This paper evaluates change scenarios in rural communities of the Kichwa Amazonian territory in the Anzu River Valley, Ecuador, in six communities, from Tzawata, at Northeast to Veinticuatro de Mayo at Southwest; at low, medium and high levels of the Anzu river valley.
Ruth Árias, Manuel Pérez, Elisa López, Haideé Marín   +3 more
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Strong Kichwa Women are Made, Made Up, and Make Others: Feminist Theory Meets Amazonian Ethnography of Gender, Bodies, and Social Change

Anthropological Quarterly, 2019
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Strategic diagnosis of the local development environmental system in rural communities of the colonized Amazonian Kichwa territory

2018
Con los métodos de Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) se diagnostica la ocupación del sistema ambiental utilizando el geoposicionamiento de las comunidades, el análisis de las relaciones espaciales y la representación cartográfica. Esta es la base del desarrollo local sostenible en seis comunidades rurales en el territorio ancestral de la nación ...
Ruth Arias Gutiérrez, Manuel Pérez Quintana, Roberto González Sousa, Angelina Herrera Sorzano, Neyfe Sablón-Cossío   +4 more
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Residual Urbanization and the Social Relations of Collective Struggle in an Amazonian Kichwa Commune from Ecuador

Journal of Global South Studies
Abstract: In this article, we combine anthropological theory with an urban studies framework to analyze and understand the processes by which cities expand into rural areas and transform landscapes, ways of life, and social practices in uneven and complex ways.
Michael A. Uzendoski, Gustavo Durán Saavedra, Manuel Bayón Jiménez   +2 more
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making

This dissertation is based upon four narratives and one song from interviews with a group of Napo Kichwa women. Kichwa society functions on three intersecting levels: between humans and other humans, between humans and non-human animals, and between humans and non-human spirit beings.
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Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River: Kinship and History in the Western Amazon

Hispanic American Historical Review, 2023
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