Lessons from a Quechua strongwoman : ideophony, dialogue, and perspective / / Janis B. Nuckolls
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| Autore: |
Nuckolls Janis B
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| Titolo: |
Lessons from a Quechua strongwoman : ideophony, dialogue, and perspective / / Janis B. Nuckolls
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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 498/.323 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Puyo (Pastaza, Ecuador) Social conditions |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lessons from a Quechua strongwoman |
| ISBN: | 1-299-19147-9 |
| 0-8165-0179-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910965593803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
First peoples (2010)