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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965593803321

Autore

Nuckolls Janis B

Titolo

Lessons from a Quechua strongwoman : ideophony, dialogue, and perspective / / Janis B. Nuckolls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010

ISBN

1-299-19147-9

0-8165-0179-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Disciplina

498/.323

Soggetti

Quechua language - Ecuador - Puyo (Pastaza) - Ideophone

Quechua language - Ecuador - Puyo (Pastaza) - Lexicology

Quechua language - Ecuador - Puyo (Pastaza) - Semantics

Culture - Semiotic models

Quechua women - Ecuador - Puyo (Pastaza) - Social conditions

Quechua philosophy - Ecuador - Puyo (Pastaza)

Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On riveting objectivity -- On ecological dialogism -- On nonhuman role models and new correspondences -- On the nature-to-culture continuum -- On tenaciously persisting.

Sommario/riassunto

Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. This book is a fascinating look at ideophones--words that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers' discourse--both linguistic and cultural--because they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadena's utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety



of voices. Cadena's narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans.