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Music, modernization, and westernization among the Macuma Shuar
Cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern Ecuador • Urbana • Published In 1981 • Pages: 731-748
By: Belzner, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Shuar music and culture change. Belzner discusses traditional Shuar music and instruments. He then examines the influence of western popular and religious music on Shuar music form and practice. Belzner finds that the Shuar have been able to keep the two traditions separate, i.e., no westernization and syncretism has occurred. For the Shuar, music is a means to gain power. Where western music worked to undermine Shuar independence and self-sufficiency, it was rejected and used only superficially in context of Shuar-White interactions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jivaro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Macuma, Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Belzner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 747-748)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81004402
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians