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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Kichwa"”.
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Prosody in Kichwa
… investigates the prosodic system of Salasaka Kichwa, focusing on the interaction between pitch, morphosyntactic structure, and word order in both elicited and spontaneous speech. Based on data from ten native speakers of the Salasaka community, the study analyzes approximately 150 utterances …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
… one song from interviews with a group of Napo Kichwa women. Kichwa society functions on three intersecting levels: between humans and other humans, between humans and non-human animals, and between humans and non-human spirit beings. Each of these texts expresses how these different beings …
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Kichwa-Bogotá : Indígenas extranjeros en el marco del multiculturalismo colombiano
Los Kichwa Otavalo son una comunidad indígena ecuatoriana que durante las últimas décadas se ha caracterizado por su migración transnacional. Colombia fue uno de los primeros destinos de esta población y Bogotá se ha convertido en uno de los nodos migratorios más importantes tanto a nivel nacional …
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Narrativas y trayectorias de las mujeres kichwa: un análisis de la migración indígena ecuatoriana a Colombia
… los roles que han tenido las mujeres indígenas kichwa en sus trayectorias migratorias. Este trabajo busca analizar las dinámicas de la migración de estas mujeres dentro de las relaciones de parentesco y comercio transnacional, y de esta manera, visibilizar los cambios que han tenido en su rol …
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Between Facebook and Boas: Kichwa Indigenous Identity in Alto Napo and Challenges to Multiculturalism in Ecuador
<p>This qualitative study examines contemporary Kichwa indigenous identity formation in the Alto Napo region of Ecuador through Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital. Following an extended-case method, I analyze the articulation of <em>indigenousness</em> (as an idealized expression of tradition) …
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Semillas de concienca | seeds of consciousness: sowing change from the Ecuadorian highlands
… story, and mine. I met Pintag Amaru – a small Kichwa organization in Ecuador – in 2022, and this work is the fruit of our collaboration. Focusing broadly on sumak kawsay, a Kichwa principle engaged in Ecuador's 2008 constitution, our research explores Pintag Amaru's understanding, and living …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… Colta was the setting of a mass conversion of Kichwa-speaking indigenous peoples from Catholicism to evangelical Protestantism at the hands of North American missionaries. Coinciding with Ecuador’s watershed period of agrarian reform, religious conversion signified collective liberation from …
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The great shout of the wolves’ mouth: Indigeneity, social change and historical narrative in the Ecuadorian Andes
… in the central highlands of Ecuador, where Kichwa indigenous communities, a major hacienda (Hacienda Talahua), and a white-mestizo town coexisted until the early 1980s. Relationships of exploitation and racial discrimination against indigenous people were predominant during this period. …
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Sumak kawsay as generative of a new indigenous identity in the Amazonian region of Ecuador
The concept of sumak kawsay, a Kichwa phrase roughly translatable into English as “good living,” served multiple functions during the latter half of the twentieth century in Ecuador. It served as a shorthand expression of an alternative mode of social organization premised on local community values …
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A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature
… in the readings of masculinity in his novels: Kichwa Maji, Gamba la Nyoka, Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo, Nagona and Mzingile. The study assumes that various circumstances influence and determine men’s masculinity and that masculinity is a trait that can be exhibited by both men and women. It also …
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The Representation of Masculinity in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s : A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature
… in the readings of masculinity in his novels: Kichwa Maji, Gamba la Nyoka, Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo, Nagona and Mzingile. The study assumes that various circumstances influence and determine men’s masculinity and that masculinity is a trait that can be exhibited by both men and women. It also …
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Opening Our Eyes: How Activist Women in Ecuador Learn Critical Political and Self-Aware Consciousness
… of individuals, communities, and the Pacha Mama (Kichwa for Mother Nature or Mother Universe).</p> <p>I combined participant observation, interview, focus group, survey and photovoice methods to research local, regional, and national level organizations in Ecuador between 2010 and 2013. To examine …