Ritual memories on the Napo River. The rubber trade and the napuruna in northeastern Peru.

El caucho del medio Napo hacia fines del XIX e inicios del XX en una textualidad fenomenológica.

Authors

  • Nehemias Pino FLACSO https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7684-8003

    MA in Anthropology by FLACSO Ecuador. His research interests are on Alternative Amazonian Memories, Phenomenological Textualities, Ritual Timeless Bodies, and Contemporary perceptions in the Amazonian Forest. His research work is mainly ethnographic and has focused on two Amazonian rivers; the Napo in northeast Peruvian Amazon and Purús in the southeast. Among his work are “Piel, otras pieles”, “Los dos cuerpos de una persona”, and “Momentos personificados, espíritus antiguos”. 
  • Michael Uzendoski FLACSO https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-8648

    Michael Uzendoski currently works at the Department of Anthropology, History, and Humanities at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador (FLACSO ECUADOR). Michael does research in Sociocultural Anthropology and World Literatures. One current project is 'Kukama Runa: Polyphonic Aesthetics in Cine Comunitario among the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (with Patricia Bermúdez)'.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202201.007

Keywords:

Napo, Rubber memory, napuruna, metaphor, yakuruna, ayahuasca

Abstract

This article reflects on the memory of the rubber boom in the mid Napo River towards the end of the XIX century and the beginning of XX century in the village of Angoteros. In this article, we develop a theoretical discussion to better understand a complex memory through the notion of phenomenological texts and perspectivism. In the ethnographic data, we present the image of the yakuruna boat, generated in ayahuasca rituals, as a text that accounts for the relationship of the people of Angoteros with the commercial dynamics along the rubber trade. We aim that the symbolic complex of the master spirits and the yakuruna boat start from a phenomenological text that defines the memories of the Rubber Boom in the mid Napo River region.

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Published

2022-08-29

How to Cite

Pino, N., & Uzendoski, M. (2022). Ritual memories on the Napo River. The rubber trade and the napuruna in northeastern Peru.: El caucho del medio Napo hacia fines del XIX e inicios del XX en una textualidad fenomenológica. Anthropologica Del Departamento De Ciencias Sociales, 40(48), 199–225. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202201.007

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 48 (2022): Experience and experimentation: qualitative and audiovisual methodologies for doing etnography nowadays

Section

Amazon

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