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Culture Summaryessay 2010 • Whitten, Norman E.
Canelos Quichua • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a culture summary of the Canelos Quichua. Information is presented on major aspects of Canelos Quichua culture....Sicuanga RunaBook 1985 • Whitten, Norman E.
Canelos Quichua • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This monograph focuses primarily on the site of Nayapi Llacta/Nueva Esperanza (pseudonym for a composite of three hamlets) in Ecuador in order to explore the theme of the duality of power patterning in the community. In general this book is about a c...Ritual structurebook chapter 1976 • Whitten, Norman E.
Canelos Quichua • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Once or twice a year a large-scale ceremony is held in and near the administrative locus of each of the territories of the Canelos Quichua. Although this ceremony has no name other than [n]jista[/n], from the Spanish [i]fiesta[/i], and although the C...The structure of kinship and marriage among the Canelos Quichua of east-central Ecuadoressay 1984 • Whitten, Norman E. & Whitten, Dorothea S.
Canelos Quichua • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a detailed study of kinship structure and marriaage among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador. For the Canelos Quichua, marriage consists of a process of spouse acquisition (for a man, [n]huarmiyuj[/n], or the 'possession of a woman';...