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During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations. For the Waorani living along the oil roads, living well has taken many pathways. Notably, they have developed new spatial organizations as they move between several houses, and navigate between the economy of the market and the economy of the forest.
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations. For the Waorani living along the oil roads, living well has taken many pathways. Notably, they have developed new spatial organizations as they move between several houses, and navigate between the economy of the market and the economy of the forest.
In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. Translating Worlds, Defending Land explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new poss...
Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called ‘vernacular houses’. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understand the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.
This book is the first of two volumes that bring together the works presented at the congress "Contributions of Psychology to COVID-19", organized by the Interamerican Society of Psychology in 2020. This was one of the first virtual international meetings on psychology and COVID-19 in the world and brought together researchers and professionals from South, Central and North America in a single online event. The content of both volumes includes many of the first issues addressed by researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the Americas at the start of the pandemic – before vaccines, before knowledge of treatment and impact, before our worlds and daily lives were forever changed. Chapt...
El 31 de Agosto de 1941, Luis Roberto Altamira publicaba en el diario La Nación un trabajo de investigación sobre el «oratorio» del Obispo Mercadillo, con el título: La Casa del Obispo Mercadillo; allí presentaba algunas evidencias documentales sobre el supuesto oratorio que en realidad no fue ni oratorio, ni capilla del Manuel de Mercadillo, ni la de un cementerio o la entrada de catacumbas, ni la morada del prelado, aunque en ese lugar hubo con anterioridad una casa (casona – patio) que fue reformada y embellecida, en la cual fallece el obispo. Sin embargo sí llegará a ser alojamiento para los alumnos del Convictorio - Colegio Real Mon[t]serrat y Seminario de Santo Tomás de Aqui...
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies, as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Ritual Theater Storytelling Music Dance Textiles Land Acknowledgments Indigenous Identity Visual Arts Embodiment Cognition Healing Festivals Politics Activism The Law Race and Ethnicity Gender and Sexuality Class Religion, Spirituality, and Faith Disability Leisure, Gaming, and Sport In addition, the included Appendix offers tools, exercises, and activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers, both within and beyond academic contexts, to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology, performance studies, and related disciplines, including religious studies, art, philosophy, history, political science, gender studies, and education.
Al igual que en otros países, en Ecuador la antropología no es solo una disciplina, son varias genealogías que obedecen a temas diversos con enfoques interdisciplinarios y que cambian de acuerdo al contexto social, económico y político; pero a diferencia de la región, registra pocas escuelas de antropología y centros de formación de profesionales en el área. Esta recopilación de textos muestra la diversidad y las múltiples facetas de las antropologías ecuatorianas. La antropología ecuatoriana no se agota en estas historiografías y resalta aquellas genealogías del pensamiento ecuatoriano, nutrido por reflexiones desde las escuelas clásicas de la antropología, que dialogan fuertemente con el contexto nacional y que, particularmente, tienen la capacidad de recrearse a la luz de las necesidades reales de la gente con quienes se co-construye el conocimiento.
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