Tod D Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 131015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tod D Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tod D |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. (Durham: Duke University Press 2020) xi + 252 pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9781478008484
Evidence for Landscape Transformation of Ridgetop Forests in Amazonian Ecuador
The Napo River basin, which is situated within the Upper Amazon archaeological region, is one of the most speciose forests in Greater Amazonia. Standard thinking in scholarship and science holds that these forests are essentially pristine because any Indigenous impacts in the past would have been minimal, seedbanks would have been nearby, and natural forests would have reappeared after the humans left, died out, or dispersed. Inventory research i…
Feeling with the Land: Llakichina and the Emotional Life of Relatedness in Amazonian Kichwa Thinking
This 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. We argue that the importance given to the eliciting of compassion is tied to the Kichwa construal of the self as inherently relational and, for this reason,…
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions
Manuel-Navarrete, D., C. Buzinde, and T. Swanson. 2021. Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions. Ecology and Society 26(2):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12265-260222
Co-producing sustainable solutions in indigenous communities through scientific tourism
This conceptual paper explores theoretical linkages between scientific tourism and sustainability outcomes within indigenous communities. Drawing on sustainability science, boundary work theory, indigenous knowledge, and decolonial frameworks, we present a typology of scientific tourism situations mapped according to the degree in which they allow co-production of solutions that combine indigenous and scientific knowledge. This paper is based on …
Resiliencia contra la pandemia de covid-19 en comunidades indígenas kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana
Entre marzo – agosto de 2020, hubo un contagio muy generalizado de covid-19 en las comunidades indígenas Kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Mostramos que el pico de contagio ya ha pasado y la mortalidad total ha sido notablemente baja. El pueblo Kichwa identifica su éxito en resistir la pandemia al uso generalizado de plantas medicinales
Evan Berry, Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
Evan Berry, Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism(Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), 272 pp., $29.38 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0520285-73-6
Lexicography in-your-face: The active semantics of Pastaza Quichua ideophones
We argue that a multimodal approach to defining a depictive class of words called ‘ideophones’ by linguists is essential for grasping their meanings. Our argument for this approach is based on the formal properties of Pastaza Quichua ideophones, which set them apart from the non-ideophonic lexicon, and on the cultural assumptions brought by speakers to their use. We analyze deficiencies in past attempts to define this language's ideophones, which…
Kohn, Eduardo: How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human
Anthropos , Seite 271 - 272
Looking Like the Land: Beauty and Aesthetics in Amazonian Quichua Philosophy and Practice
This article offers an account of Quichua thinking about beauty in the Ecuadorian Amazon: how it is grounded in a philosophical tradition that conceives the world and the self in “perspectivist” and relational terms, and how experiences of beauty play specific roles and attain a particular kind of sense within that context. In particular, we show how indigenous Quichua ideas about beauty inform a range of everyday practices and are intimately con…
Earthy Concreteness and Anti-Hypotheticalism in Amazonian Quichua Discourse
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Tena Quichua
Tena Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) belongs to the Quechuan language family, as part of the peripheral variety Quechua IIB (Torero 1964, Cerrón-Palomino 1987, Gordon 2005). It is spoken in the Eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador on the Napo River above the mouth of the Rio Coca, primarily on three tributaries: the Misahualli, the Arajuno, and the Ansuc. Tena Quichua is bounded on the North and East by Napo Quichua and on the South by Pastaza Quichua. P…
Singing to Estranged Lovers: Runa Relations to Plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This article examines Runa relation to plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon. By examining ritual songs to plants as well as gardening behavior it argues that plants are treated like dangerous lovers or difficult children. To find out why this should be the case it then examines Quichua and Shuar language accounts of the origins of plant species. These accounts suggest that plant species evolve from a previously human state in which the plants were lov…
A Civil Art: The Persuasive Moral Voice of Oscar Romero
When moral or religious teachings have public and political effects, analysis usually focuses on the message, but attention to the manner in which the teachings are communicated is equally important in understanding their power to influence the course of events. Oscar Romero's particular style of moral discourse was remarkably effective for three reasons: First, his moral reasoning resonated with Salvadoran identity. It was intelligible within th…
Through Family Eyes: Towards a More Adequate Perspective for Viewing Native American Religious Life
Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians. Johannes Wilbert
God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Vine Deloria, Jr
To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory
To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory Get access Tod D. Swanson Tod D. Swanson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 241–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.2.241 Published: 01 July 1994
Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Sabine MacCormack
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literature . Gerald Vizenor
Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion Presented to Godfrey Lienhardt . Wendy James , Douglas H. Johnson
Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. John Holmes McDowell
The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity . Harvey Cox When Theology Listens to the Poor . Leonardo Boff Trinity and Society . Leonardo Boff
Cristo y el sentido del tiempo en las tradiciones andinas y amazónicas
Si bien es cierto que no hay solamente una visión indígena de Cristo, este ensayo sostiene que es posible discernir rasgos de una cristología característicamente indígena en medio de la pluralidad existente. En base a referencias cristológicas tomadas de entrevistas, plegarias y mitos coleccionados por antropólogos en las áreas andina y amazónica he desarrollado un modelo interpretativo. Este modelo puede servir como un trasfondo para el estudio …
Risking Christ for Christ's Sake: Towards an Ecumenical Theology of Pluralism . M. M. Thomas
Singing to Estranged Lovers: Runa Relations to Plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This article examines Runa relation to plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon. By examining ritual songs to plants as well as gardening behavior it argues that plants are treated like dangerous lovers or difficult children. To find out why this should be the case it then examines Quichua and Shuar language accounts of the origins of plant species. These accounts suggest that plant species evolve from a previously human state in which the plants were lov…
Resiliencia contra la pandemia de covid-19 en comunidades indígenas kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana
Entre marzo – agosto de 2020, hubo un contagio muy generalizado de covid-19 en las comunidades indígenas Kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Mostramos que el pico de contagio ya ha pasado y la mortalidad total ha sido notablemente baja. El pueblo Kichwa identifica su éxito en resistir la pandemia al uso generalizado de plantas medicinales
Evidence for Landscape Transformation of Ridgetop Forests in Amazonian Ecuador
The Napo River basin, which is situated within the Upper Amazon archaeological region, is one of the most speciose forests in Greater Amazonia. Standard thinking in scholarship and science holds that these forests are essentially pristine because any Indigenous impacts in the past would have been minimal, seedbanks would have been nearby, and natural forests would have reappeared after the humans left, died out, or dispersed. Inventory research i…
Looking Like the Land: Beauty and Aesthetics in Amazonian Quichua Philosophy and Practice
This article offers an account of Quichua thinking about beauty in the Ecuadorian Amazon: how it is grounded in a philosophical tradition that conceives the world and the self in “perspectivist” and relational terms, and how experiences of beauty play specific roles and attain a particular kind of sense within that context. In particular, we show how indigenous Quichua ideas about beauty inform a range of everyday practices and are intimately con…
Tena Quichua
Tena Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) belongs to the Quechuan language family, as part of the peripheral variety Quechua IIB (Torero 1964, Cerrón-Palomino 1987, Gordon 2005). It is spoken in the Eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador on the Napo River above the mouth of the Rio Coca, primarily on three tributaries: the Misahualli, the Arajuno, and the Ansuc. Tena Quichua is bounded on the North and East by Napo Quichua and on the South by Pastaza Quichua. P…
Feeling with the Land: Llakichina and the Emotional Life of Relatedness in Amazonian Kichwa Thinking
This 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. We argue that the importance given to the eliciting of compassion is tied to the Kichwa construal of the self as inherently relational and, for this reason,…
Liberation Theology from below: The Life and Thought of Manuel Quintín Lame. Gonzalo Castillo-Cardenas
Cristo y el sentido del tiempo en las tradiciones andinas y amazónicas
Si bien es cierto que no hay solamente una visión indígena de Cristo, este ensayo sostiene que es posible discernir rasgos de una cristología característicamente indígena en medio de la pluralidad existente. En base a referencias cristológicas tomadas de entrevistas, plegarias y mitos coleccionados por antropólogos en las áreas andina y amazónica he desarrollado un modelo interpretativo. Este modelo puede servir como un trasfondo para el estudio …
Risking Christ for Christ's Sake: Towards an Ecumenical Theology of Pluralism . M. M. Thomas
Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions . William R. Hutchison
The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity . Harvey Cox When Theology Listens to the Poor . Leonardo Boff Trinity and Society . Leonardo Boff
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literature . Gerald Vizenor
Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion Presented to Godfrey Lienhardt . Wendy James , Douglas H. Johnson
Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians. John Holmes McDowell
Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Sabine MacCormack
To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory
To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory Get access Tod D. Swanson Tod D. Swanson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 241–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.2.241 Published: 01 July 1994
God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Vine Deloria, Jr
Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians. Johannes Wilbert
Through Family Eyes: Towards a More Adequate Perspective for Viewing Native American Religious Life
A Civil Art: The Persuasive Moral Voice of Oscar Romero
When moral or religious teachings have public and political effects, analysis usually focuses on the message, but attention to the manner in which the teachings are communicated is equally important in understanding their power to influence the course of events. Oscar Romero's particular style of moral discourse was remarkably effective for three reasons: First, his moral reasoning resonated with Salvadoran identity. It was intelligible within th…
Singing to Estranged Lovers: Runa Relations to Plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This article examines Runa relation to plants in the Ecuadorian Amazon. By examining ritual songs to plants as well as gardening behavior it argues that plants are treated like dangerous lovers or difficult children. To find out why this should be the case it then examines Quichua and Shuar language accounts of the origins of plant species. These accounts suggest that plant species evolve from a previously human state in which the plants were lov…
Tena Quichua
Tena Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) belongs to the Quechuan language family, as part of the peripheral variety Quechua IIB (Torero 1964, Cerrón-Palomino 1987, Gordon 2005). It is spoken in the Eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador on the Napo River above the mouth of the Rio Coca, primarily on three tributaries: the Misahualli, the Arajuno, and the Ansuc. Tena Quichua is bounded on the North and East by Napo Quichua and on the South by Pastaza Quichua. P…
Earthy Concreteness and Anti-Hypotheticalism in Amazonian Quichua Discourse
This Special Topics is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please
Kohn, Eduardo: How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human
Anthropos , Seite 271 - 272
Looking Like the Land: Beauty and Aesthetics in Amazonian Quichua Philosophy and Practice
This article offers an account of Quichua thinking about beauty in the Ecuadorian Amazon: how it is grounded in a philosophical tradition that conceives the world and the self in “perspectivist” and relational terms, and how experiences of beauty play specific roles and attain a particular kind of sense within that context. In particular, we show how indigenous Quichua ideas about beauty inform a range of everyday practices and are intimately con…
Lexicography in-your-face: The active semantics of Pastaza Quichua ideophones
We argue that a multimodal approach to defining a depictive class of words called ‘ideophones’ by linguists is essential for grasping their meanings. Our argument for this approach is based on the formal properties of Pastaza Quichua ideophones, which set them apart from the non-ideophonic lexicon, and on the cultural assumptions brought by speakers to their use. We analyze deficiencies in past attempts to define this language's ideophones, which…
Evan Berry, Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
Evan Berry, Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism(Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), 272 pp., $29.38 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0520285-73-6
Co-producing sustainable solutions in indigenous communities through scientific tourism
This conceptual paper explores theoretical linkages between scientific tourism and sustainability outcomes within indigenous communities. Drawing on sustainability science, boundary work theory, indigenous knowledge, and decolonial frameworks, we present a typology of scientific tourism situations mapped according to the degree in which they allow co-production of solutions that combine indigenous and scientific knowledge. This paper is based on …
Resiliencia contra la pandemia de covid-19 en comunidades indígenas kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana
Entre marzo – agosto de 2020, hubo un contagio muy generalizado de covid-19 en las comunidades indígenas Kichwa en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Mostramos que el pico de contagio ya ha pasado y la mortalidad total ha sido notablemente baja. El pueblo Kichwa identifica su éxito en resistir la pandemia al uso generalizado de plantas medicinales
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions
Manuel-Navarrete, D., C. Buzinde, and T. Swanson. 2021. Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions. Ecology and Society 26(2):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12265-260222
Feeling with the Land: Llakichina and the Emotional Life of Relatedness in Amazonian Kichwa Thinking
This 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. We argue that the importance given to the eliciting of compassion is tied to the Kichwa construal of the self as inherently relational and, for this reason,…
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