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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

A Generous Host Becomes the Chuku Tree

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

A Girl Becomes the Tapir's Wife

Luisa Cadena

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

A Human Woman Becomes the Tapir's Wife

Luisa Cadena

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A Plant That Attracts Deer And Birds

Ahuani Nihua

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A Plant To Clean Babies That Attracts Spirits

Ahuani Nihua

Text available in Kichwa

A Song to Take on the Aroma of a Simayuka Flower

Luisa Cadena

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

A Toucan Song About Couples

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in Kichwa and Spanish

A Yachak's Dolphin Wife

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

A bitter flower helps girls make strong chicha

Bélgica Dagua

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A cure for jealousy anger and bad drunks

Eulodia Dagua

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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