Manioc beer and meat: value, reproduction and cosmic substance among the Napu Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon
ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This article is an analysis of value as explored from the perspective of a Native Amazonian group. Focusing on the Napo Runa, a Quichua-speaking people from the Ecuadorian Amazon, it demonstrates that processes of production, gender transformation, kinship, and cosmology create...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2004-12, Vol.10 (4), p.883-902 |
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Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This article is an analysis of value as explored from the perspective of a Native Amazonian group. Focusing on the Napo Runa, a Quichua-speaking people from the Ecuadorian Amazon, it demonstrates that processes of production, gender transformation, kinship, and cosmology create value in Napo Runa society. The article provides a symbolic and social analysis of the production, consumption, and circulation of meat and manioc beer. It is argued that the value of these foods derives not just from labour, but also from cultural notions of desire and cosmology. Value in this system is a consistent pattern of thought and action modelled on a complex, multi-stranded theory of kinship and substance transformation. // ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: L'auteur analyse la notion de valeur selon le point de vue des Napo Runa, groupe ethnique quechuaphone d'Amazonie équatorienne. Il démontre que les processus de production, de transformation des sexes, de parenté et de cosmologie créent de la valeur dans la société napo runa. Il propose une analyse symbolique et sociale des modes de production, de consommation et de circulation de la viande et de la bière de manioc. Il avance que la valeur de ces produits alimentaires provient non seulement du travail mais aussi des significations culturelles des notions de désir et de cosmologie. Dans ce système, la valeur est un schéma cohérent de pensée et d'action calqué sur une théorie complexe de la parenté et de la transformation de la substance. Reprinted by permission of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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ISSN: | 1359-0987 |