Michael A Uzendoski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 645319 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael A Uzendoski |
| PRENOMES | Michael A |
| SOBRENOME | Uzendoski |
| ASSINATURA | UZENDOSKI M A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5774-8648 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Residual Urbanization and the Social Relations of Collective Struggle in an Amazonian Kichwa Commune from Ecuador
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. Looking at the Kichwa commune of Mulchi Yaku as a case study, we argue that local cultural practices not only make urbanization partial or even subordinate but also reproduce the social relations of…
Reconocimiento de sistemas de salud indígenas en la salud pública kichwa
En este reporte resumimos la experiencia de una comunidad kichwa de Ecuador en el ámbito de la salud durante la pandemia por la COVID-19. A través de este caso enfatizamos conceptos cruciales que están surgiendo en las ciencias sociales y demostramos su correlación directa con la medicina clínica tal como la experimentan las parteras de salud tradicionales. Además, se pone el foco en el trabajo realizado durante la pandemia por la Asociación de M…
Memorias rituales en el río Napo. El comercio cauchero y los napuruna en el noreste peruano
El presente artículo analiza los imaginarios contemporáneos sobre el caucho en el medio Napo de fines del siglo XIX e inicios del XX en la Comunidad Nativa de Angoteros. En éste generamos una discusión teórica que nos aproxime a comprender una enmarañada memoria que, sugerimos, se halla en una textualidad fenomenológica en un mundo perspectivista como el Amazónico. En nuestro material etnográfico presentamos la metáfora de la lancha de los yakuru…
Cannibal Conquerors and Ancestors
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
Amazonia and the cultural politics of extractivism
This article explores the dynamics of power and ideology that congeal around the narrative of Sumak Kawsay, or Good Living in Ecuador. My purpose is document these social and cultural logics of extractivist capitalism through a detailed ethnography of these processes within indigenous communities in Ecuador. Specifically, I focus on the communities within Block 20 of Amazonian Ecuador, the site of the Pungarayacu heavy petroleum project, 2008–201…
Kukama Runa
This essay describes a collective experience of cine comunitario (community cinema) as a humanistic method for (re)telling narratives, for working in a polyphonic audiovisual mode, and for transmitting ontological perspectives of life, poetics, and communitas to diverse audiences. Specifically, we share our story of a collective journey, that of making the Kichwa film Kukama Runa, a 36-minute fictional work based on a Napo Runa myth
Jumandy, parentesco e historicidad
Este trabajo presenta un análisis sobre la lucha histórica de las poblaciones nativas del Alto Napo, considerando el rol de las visiones de poder en la memoria, historia y acción social. Mi hipótesis es que la teoría indígena de lucha nació de las visiones rituales que precedieron al levantamiento de "Jumandy" (1578) cuando los nativos del Alto Napo se alzaron y destruyeron las ciudades de Archidona y Loreto. Fundado en evidencias reunidas durant…
Los Saberes Ancestrales en La Era Delantropoceno
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 Cristo (Whitehead 2009). Aunque la evidencia arqueológica es escasa en muchos lugares podemos afirmar que los Amazónicos han aportado mucho a la humanidad, incluyendo tales descubrimientos como: la domesticación de la yuca, conocimiento sobre miles de plantas medicinale…
The Falling Sky
Reviewed by: The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert Michael A. Uzendoski (bio) Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert. The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge ma: Harvard University Press, 2013. 622pp. Cloth, $39.95. The Falling Sky is a “life story, autoethnography, and cosmoecological manifestó” (1) that provides the reader with an intimate portrait of t…
From "Acculturated Indians" to "Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples
Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (2013), it is made clear that Amazonian Quichua-Quechua-speaking people manifest central paradigms of power and dynamic cultural systems that serve both as axes of interculturality and templates for cultural continuity and transformation.To establish the contextual basis for this special topic, we turn now to a brief introduction to, and overview of, Amazonian Quichua-speaking people of Ecuad…
Analogic Alterity
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Under A Watchful Eye
El regreso de Jumandy
Este trabajo analiza los significados culturales del levantamiento indígena en el 2001 en el alto Napo como modo de investigar la historicidad indígena. Aunque hay varias publicaciones sobre el levantamiento 2001 en Napo, no se han considerado estos eventos desde una perspectiva de la historicidad kichwa. El argumento es que la historia que producen los hablantes de kichwa amazónico se estructura como un complejo de circulación de sustancias (o s…
Beyond orality
Drawing on narratives and images related to mythology, I explore the relationships between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador. My argument is that the Napo Runa, as well as other indigenous peoples in the Americas, have developed their own complex theories of textuality in which cosmology is inscribed within the body, the social, and the surrounding territorial world. …
A Tribute to Sibby Whitten
Sounds Like Life
Book review of Sounds Like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) by Janis B. Nuckolls. 1996. Oxford University Press [http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/]
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
Somatic Poetry in Amazonian Ecuador
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 “somatic poetry,” which I define as the process of making and experiencing beauty so that life and the story become part of the same thread. I discuss how somatic poetry involves drama and coauthoring with nonhuman natural beings, including spirits. I also explore how som…
Puyo Runa
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
Making Amazonia
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. (London: Routledge Press, 2001. Pp. 320. $90.00 cloth, $31.95 paper.) Beyond the Visible and The Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work Of Peter Riviére. Edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 322. $74.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.) Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the P…
The Phenomenology of Perspectivism
The Horizontal Archipelago
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 be found in historical sources. It is argued that local and regional exchanges followed a social logic where human transactions such as marriage-not "commercial"goods-occupied the highest tier of value in the circulation process. These principles are explored through an an…
Manioc Beer and Meat
This article is an analysis of value as explored from the perspective of a Native Amazonian group. Focusing on the Napo Runa, a Quichua-speaking people from the Ecuadorian Amazon, it demonstrates that processes of production, gender transformation, kinship, and cosmology create value in Napo Runa society. The article provides a symbolic and social analysis of the production, consumption, and circulation of meat and manioc beer. It is argued that …
Beyond orality
Drawing on narratives and images related to mythology, I explore the relationships between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador. My argument is that the Napo Runa, as well as other indigenous peoples in the Americas, have developed their own complex theories of textuality in which cosmology is inscribed within the body, the social, and the surrounding territorial world. …
Manioc Beer and Meat
This article is an analysis of value as explored from the perspective of a Native Amazonian group. Focusing on the Napo Runa, a Quichua-speaking people from the Ecuadorian Amazon, it demonstrates that processes of production, gender transformation, kinship, and cosmology create value in Napo Runa society. The article provides a symbolic and social analysis of the production, consumption, and circulation of meat and manioc beer. It is argued that …
The Horizontal Archipelago
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 be found in historical sources. It is argued that local and regional exchanges followed a social logic where human transactions such as marriage-not "commercial"goods-occupied the highest tier of value in the circulation process. These principles are explored through an an…
The Phenomenology of Perspectivism
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
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
Kukama Runa
This essay describes a collective experience of cine comunitario (community cinema) as a humanistic method for (re)telling narratives, for working in a polyphonic audiovisual mode, and for transmitting ontological perspectives of life, poetics, and communitas to diverse audiences. Specifically, we share our story of a collective journey, that of making the Kichwa film Kukama Runa, a 36-minute fictional work based on a Napo Runa myth
El regreso de Jumandy
Este trabajo analiza los significados culturales del levantamiento indígena en el 2001 en el alto Napo como modo de investigar la historicidad indígena. Aunque hay varias publicaciones sobre el levantamiento 2001 en Napo, no se han considerado estos eventos desde una perspectiva de la historicidad kichwa. El argumento es que la historia que producen los hablantes de kichwa amazónico se estructura como un complejo de circulación de sustancias (o s…
Making Amazonia
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. (London: Routledge Press, 2001. Pp. 320. $90.00 cloth, $31.95 paper.) Beyond the Visible and The Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work Of Peter Riviére. Edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 322. $74.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.) Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the P…
Jumandy, parentesco e historicidad
Este trabajo presenta un análisis sobre la lucha histórica de las poblaciones nativas del Alto Napo, considerando el rol de las visiones de poder en la memoria, historia y acción social. Mi hipótesis es que la teoría indígena de lucha nació de las visiones rituales que precedieron al levantamiento de "Jumandy" (1578) cuando los nativos del Alto Napo se alzaron y destruyeron las ciudades de Archidona y Loreto. Fundado en evidencias reunidas durant…
From "Acculturated Indians" to "Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples
Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (2013), it is made clear that Amazonian Quichua-Quechua-speaking people manifest central paradigms of power and dynamic cultural systems that serve both as axes of interculturality and templates for cultural continuity and transformation.To establish the contextual basis for this special topic, we turn now to a brief introduction to, and overview of, Amazonian Quichua-speaking people of Ecuad…
Analogic Alterity
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
Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art
Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking. Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 309 pp
Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art
Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking. Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 309 pp
The Horizontal Archipelago
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 be found in historical sources. It is argued that local and regional exchanges followed a social logic where human transactions such as marriage-not "commercial"goods-occupied the highest tier of value in the circulation process. These principles are explored through an an…
Manioc Beer and Meat
This article is an analysis of value as explored from the perspective of a Native Amazonian group. Focusing on the Napo Runa, a Quichua-speaking people from the Ecuadorian Amazon, it demonstrates that processes of production, gender transformation, kinship, and cosmology create value in Napo Runa society. The article provides a symbolic and social analysis of the production, consumption, and circulation of meat and manioc beer. It is argued that …
Making Amazonia
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Edited by Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. (London: Routledge Press, 2001. Pp. 320. $90.00 cloth, $31.95 paper.) Beyond the Visible and The Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work Of Peter Riviére. Edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 322. $74.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.) Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the P…
The Phenomenology of Perspectivism
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador
Somatic Poetry in Amazonian Ecuador
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 “somatic poetry,” which I define as the process of making and experiencing beauty so that life and the story become part of the same thread. I discuss how somatic poetry involves drama and coauthoring with nonhuman natural beings, including spirits. I also explore how som…
Puyo Runa
Sounds Like Life
Book review of Sounds Like Life: Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) by Janis B. Nuckolls. 1996. Oxford University Press [http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/]
A Tribute to Sibby Whitten
Beyond orality
Drawing on narratives and images related to mythology, I explore the relationships between textuality, territory, and ontology among Amazonian cultures, and specifically the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador. My argument is that the Napo Runa, as well as other indigenous peoples in the Americas, have developed their own complex theories of textuality in which cosmology is inscribed within the body, the social, and the surrounding territorial world. …
El regreso de Jumandy
Este trabajo analiza los significados culturales del levantamiento indígena en el 2001 en el alto Napo como modo de investigar la historicidad indígena. Aunque hay varias publicaciones sobre el levantamiento 2001 en Napo, no se han considerado estos eventos desde una perspectiva de la historicidad kichwa. El argumento es que la historia que producen los hablantes de kichwa amazónico se estructura como un complejo de circulación de sustancias (o s…
From "Acculturated Indians" to "Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples
Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (2013), it is made clear that Amazonian Quichua-Quechua-speaking people manifest central paradigms of power and dynamic cultural systems that serve both as axes of interculturality and templates for cultural continuity and transformation.To establish the contextual basis for this special topic, we turn now to a brief introduction to, and overview of, Amazonian Quichua-speaking people of Ecuad…
Analogic Alterity
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
Under A Watchful Eye
Los Saberes Ancestrales en La Era Delantropoceno
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 Cristo (Whitehead 2009). Aunque la evidencia arqueológica es escasa en muchos lugares podemos afirmar que los Amazónicos han aportado mucho a la humanidad, incluyendo tales descubrimientos como: la domesticación de la yuca, conocimiento sobre miles de plantas medicinale…
The Falling Sky
Reviewed by: The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert Michael A. Uzendoski (bio) Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert. The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge ma: Harvard University Press, 2013. 622pp. Cloth, $39.95. The Falling Sky is a “life story, autoethnography, and cosmoecological manifestó” (1) that provides the reader with an intimate portrait of t…
Jumandy, parentesco e historicidad
Este trabajo presenta un análisis sobre la lucha histórica de las poblaciones nativas del Alto Napo, considerando el rol de las visiones de poder en la memoria, historia y acción social. Mi hipótesis es que la teoría indígena de lucha nació de las visiones rituales que precedieron al levantamiento de "Jumandy" (1578) cuando los nativos del Alto Napo se alzaron y destruyeron las ciudades de Archidona y Loreto. Fundado en evidencias reunidas durant…
Amazonia and the cultural politics of extractivism
This article explores the dynamics of power and ideology that congeal around the narrative of Sumak Kawsay, or Good Living in Ecuador. My purpose is document these social and cultural logics of extractivist capitalism through a detailed ethnography of these processes within indigenous communities in Ecuador. Specifically, I focus on the communities within Block 20 of Amazonian Ecuador, the site of the Pungarayacu heavy petroleum project, 2008–201…
Kukama Runa
This essay describes a collective experience of cine comunitario (community cinema) as a humanistic method for (re)telling narratives, for working in a polyphonic audiovisual mode, and for transmitting ontological perspectives of life, poetics, and communitas to diverse audiences. Specifically, we share our story of a collective journey, that of making the Kichwa film Kukama Runa, a 36-minute fictional work based on a Napo Runa myth
Cannibal Conquerors and Ancestors
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
Reconocimiento de sistemas de salud indígenas en la salud pública kichwa
En este reporte resumimos la experiencia de una comunidad kichwa de Ecuador en el ámbito de la salud durante la pandemia por la COVID-19. A través de este caso enfatizamos conceptos cruciales que están surgiendo en las ciencias sociales y demostramos su correlación directa con la medicina clínica tal como la experimentan las parteras de salud tradicionales. Además, se pone el foco en el trabajo realizado durante la pandemia por la Asociación de M…
Memorias rituales en el río Napo. El comercio cauchero y los napuruna en el noreste peruano
El presente artículo analiza los imaginarios contemporáneos sobre el caucho en el medio Napo de fines del siglo XIX e inicios del XX en la Comunidad Nativa de Angoteros. En éste generamos una discusión teórica que nos aproxime a comprender una enmarañada memoria que, sugerimos, se halla en una textualidad fenomenológica en un mundo perspectivista como el Amazónico. En nuestro material etnográfico presentamos la metáfora de la lancha de los yakuru…
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