The Phenomenology of Perspectivism: Aesthetics, Sound, and Power in Women’s Songs from Amazonian Ecuador1

Uzendoski et al explore how the poetic structures of grammar and music in three women's songs from the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador evoke the native theory of the body's potency and its ability to attract desirable things, powers, qualities, and people. In confronting the aesthetic and cultural complexity of these songs they have drawn on a variety of theoretical approaches, among them French and Brazilian structuralism, embodiment, mimesis, ethnopoetics, and ethnomusicology.