The Sound-Symbolic Expression Of Animacy In Amazonian Ecuador

The Sound-Symbolic Expression Of Animacy In Amazonian Ecuador Janis B. Nuckolls, 2010 Several anthropologists of Amazonian societies in Ecuador have claimed that for Achuar [1] and Quichua speaking Runa [2-4] there is no fundamental distinction between humans on the one hand, and plants and animals on the other. A related observation is that Runa and Achuar people share an animistic cosmology whereby animals, plants, and even seemingly inert entities such as rocks and stones are believed...

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