IYARINA
Napo-Pastaza, Ecuador
CENTER FOR LEARNING ALLIANCE: Fundación Cotococha | Andes and Amazon Field School | Shayarina Amazonian Resilience
The Amazonian Social Relation to Nature
An Open Access Environmental Humanities Project
The “social relation to nature” refers to an Amazonian way of engaging the nonhuman world as though it had the full range of human emotions. Plants, animals, or even earth are believed to feel lonely and to desire company across species lines; but also to be shy, desire privacy, to sometimes be resentful or to withdraw from human company. Empathy for human needs sometimes causes them to be generous, offering themselves for food or medicine. On the other hand, they can be ambivalent, resentful, take revenge for the death of their relatives. The presernt project links short videos of testimonies, stories, and songs that engage various the forest world to the kichwa and scientific species names of the various plants and animals present in the narratives. It also links species and nature to the stages of the human life cycle through which nature is experienced socially.. Kichwa traditions on particular plants or animals can be searched by species.
Explore the 'Social Relation to Nature" Through a selected species
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Explore the 'Social Relation to Nature" Through the human life-cycle
A spider drags a woman to the river (story)
Anguila Uma Scares Away The Animals From The Farm
The deer's favorite plant
Teeth Can Fall Out In The First Menstruation
A Plant To Clean Babies That Attracts Spirits
A Plant That Attracts Deer And Birds
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Pedro Andi
On not telling a medicinal tree before you pull its root
Pedro Andi
Mutual Intelligibility of Tena Pastaza dialects
Pedro Andi
Encounter With the Master of Fireflies
Pedro Andi
What happens when the forest gets angry
Pedro Andi
A Cedar Tree Cries Knowing its Death is Near
Pedro Andi
On talking to snakes
Luisa Cadena
Thoughts on the Life of an Unknown Sloth
Luisa Cadena
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Luisa Cadena
The Moon and his Sisters
Luisa Cadena
Sound of Armadillo Breathing
Luisa Cadena
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Luisa Cadena
Paw ideophone for hit with simayuka
Luisa Cadena
Suk
Luisa Cadena
The story of a man who was a bat
Luisa Cadena
Baaaa
Luisa Cadena
Pashpanzhu
Eulodia Dagua
Do babies love their mothers
Eulodia Dagua
The Solitude of the Chuchukian Bird
Eulodia Dagua
Best woods for firing ceramics
Eulodia Dagua
The Mother of Clay Survives the Flood
Eulodia Dagua
Wild Birds I Have Raised
Eulodia Dagua
The Loving Dead and Harmful Ghosts.
Eulodia Dagua
On preparing a maitu of wild mushrooms
Eulodia Dagua
Shiona panga shina
Eulodia Dagua
To escape fiery rain people become chamburu grubs
Eulodia Dagua
The Mother of Clay
Eulodia Dagua
I will disappear in thorny palms: A song for leaving
Eulodia Dagua
Value of Kichwa Program
Eulodia Dagua
Susu wituk filmed from the canoe
Eulodia Dagua
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Eulodia Dagua
How I feel when I see my interviews on the internet
Eulodia Dagua
On the Varieties of Manioc
Eulodia Dagua
Chuchu Ala: The Breast Milk Mushroom
Eulodia Dagua
On female infanticide
On Chonta and Shiwa
Donde murió mi hermano ahí voy a quedar cuando me muera
Story of Sun-Hides-in Branches' encounters with various women
Antes vivíamos bien con los Taromenane. A los monos que criaban mandaban pintados con achiote
Awani 5
Awani 4
Awani 2
Awani 1
On how she learned languages
Song remembering her relatives.
Song of the Taromenane
On which relatives were friends and enemies
On the death of a sloth and the death of a grandmother
The one we placed inside the chest of a tapir emerged two days later as a parrot
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On Conflicts and Relations Before Contact
If Dayma took us we knew something would happen
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Ghosts (iwianch) eat the food of the children
Auju and Nantu, the Moon
At dusk a spear is coming: Achuar War Song
Ant man helps a girl harvest ants
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Brother, face blackened with Wituk Becomes the Moon
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Land Crabs Bring Water
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A man gets angry and his adopted monkey son who goes away and later returns
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Sloth marries a girl
The Arts: Linking to other species through beauty
