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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

Why Deer Don't Have Masters

Bélgica Dagua

Text available in English and Kichwa

Why I Wake Up the Tree to Harvest Its Medicine

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

Why Young People Should Not Kill Geckos

Bélgica Dagua

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Why strangler figs don't attack kapok trees

Pedro Andi

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

Widowed Toucans Sing Love Songs

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in English, Kichwa and Spanish

Wild Birds I Have Raised

Eulodia Dagua

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Wild Cacao Tree Kills a Greedy Man

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in Kichwa and Spanish

Wind Fire and Chakra

Eulodia Dagua

Text available in Kichwa

Wituk and Manduru

Luis Vargas

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Wituk and manduru gestures

Luisa Cadena

All Videos

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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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