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Videos: Audio Visual preservation of Indigenous relations with land, languages, and culture. 

This project presents the Amazonian relation to nature by linking short videos of testimonies, stories, and songs to the names of the plant and animal species that are the subjects of the narratives. Videos are linked to the sensory mode through which the species is perceived or engaged in the video: sound (language, singing), sight (gesture, the visual arts), smell, o taste. Unlike still forms of documentation such as photography or writing, videos allow beter inisght into the sensory world of indigenous peoples living intimately with the land. 

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Explore the 'Social Relation to Nature" Through a selected species

Click the following icons to search plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates groups. 

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Explore the 'Social Relation to Nature" Through the human life-cycle

Cycles of a Body Shared with Nature

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     Childhood

     Adolescence     

     Women

     Men

     Aging, Death, and Ancestors 

Video Search

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

How Communities Used To Drink Wholesomely

Bélgica Dagua

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How Crabs Fight Thunder

Luisa Cadena

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How I feel when I see my interviews on the internet

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in Kichwa

How Lila Used Umu Palm Perfume

Luisa Cadena

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How Monkeys Call Their Relatives

Luisa Cadena

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How My Father Gathered Chicle in the Rubber Boom

Luisa Cadena

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

How My Grandfather Became a Jaguar

Eulodia Dagua

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How jaguar spots shaped a leaf pattern

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Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

How the Forest Cures Sadness

David Dagua

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

How the Red tailed Boa Attracts Birds

Luisa Cadena

All Videos

All Videos

CONTACT  US   
 

cotococha.ec@gmail.com 

480.276.5913

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ANDES AND AMAZON FIELD SCHOOL

Sponsored by Title VI National Resource Centers at University of Wisconsin Madison, the University of Florida, Florida International University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Brigham Young University.

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