Ethnicity and culture amidst new "neighbors" : the Runa of Ecuador's Amazon region
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Ethnicity and culture amidst new "neighbors" : the Runa of Ecuador's Amazon region
（Cultural survival studies in ethnicity and change）
Allyn and Bacon, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index
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Description
This new ethnography chronicles the recent history of the Runa, a Quichua-speaking Indian population in Ecuador's amazon region. The author has been following the Runa's adaptation to continuous changes around and amongst them since 1974. When Macdonald first met the Runa they were practicing swidden horticulture, hunting, fishing, and living their created culture while also reacting to external pressures imposed on them by newly arrived colonists and changing national legislation. The book follows the development of the Runa from a passive accommodating society to an indigenous ethnic federation.
This book is the newest addition to the successful Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr., of Cultural Survival, Inc. at Harvard University. Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this series of ethnographies builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture.
Table of Contents
1.Introduction.
I.THE RUNA.
2.Organizing Society: Land, Kin, and Ritual.
Community Territory and Settlement Pattern.
Kin Structure and Organization.
Ritual among the Runa: The Marriage Ceremony.
3.Understanding the Self and Social Order.
Becoming a Runa.
Relationship between Runa and Forest Spirits.
Ordering Life through Dreams.
II.THE RUNA AND NATIONAL SOCIETY.
4.From Apu to Patron.
The Rubber Boom.
Eloy Alfaro and the "Liberal Revolution."
Runa and Patrons.
5.Colonists, Land Reform, and Cattle: A Case Study.
The Settlement of Arajuno.
Agrarian Reform and Colonization.
Cattle, Changing National Policies, Petroleum, and the Agrarian Reform Laws of 1974.
6.Ethnic Federations: from Moral to Political Economy.
Dream Symbolism: Where Are the White People?
From Patrons to Colonists.
Ethnic Federations in the Ecuadorian Oriente.
Agrarian Reform and Colonization.
7.Ethnic Federations and Government Policies.
Rethinking Stereotypes.
FOIN and Natural Forest Management.
1980-1984: The Jaime Roldos/Oswaldo Hurtado Administration.
1984-1988: President Leon Febres Cordero: "Closed Doors."
Political Opposition, Community-Based Projects, and Increased Auto Linderacion.
8.Indigenous Politics and Conservation.
Community Lands.
Forest Management.
The "Era of the Projects:" Napo Runa and Resource Management.
1988-1992: The Rodrigo Borja Era.
9.The Politics of Territories.
Towards Parity.
"Indio" as Ethnic Marker.
Ethnic "Nationalism."
Collective Action and Social Movements.
10.Change and Culture.
"Boys Don't Need the Sacha Purina Pistu Any Longer. We Lead a New Life Now."
Runa Understanding: Public and Private.
Runa in the Forest.
Runa World View Reconsidered.
The "Modern" Wedding.
Summary.
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