THE AMAZONIAN SOCIAL
RELATION TO NATURE

An Open Access Environmental Humanities Digital Project

Indigenous Knowledge

Shared Bodies

The land and the human life cylce is a shared body. Our approach is to interview knowledgeable individuals in the forest setting where their memories are activated by the plants and animals they see.

Intimately explore stories through audio visual expression...

The Human Life Cycle

Childhood
Adolescence and the seductive forest
Women
Men
Death and Ancestors

The Land

Relatives who went away: Origins Stories and the Meaning of Biodiversity
Forests
Rivers and Rain
Sky, Sun, Moon and Stars and Thunder

"Land and people are a shared body. I am not quite sure how to explain it, it's just something we know to be true from generations of intimacy with the land. It's like knowing the sun will rise every day"

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People & Blogs, Education, Film & Animation

sustainability field schools, School, indigenous languages, Field, iyarina, Amazon, Iyarina, Andes, kichwa, amazonia, quechua, yt:cc=on, 4-6-19

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Fiorella Vera-Adrianzen is an Iyarina alumna and PhD student in the University of New Mexico, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations. In this interview she explains the profound impact that learning an indigenous language has had in her life and career. You can learn more about Fiorella at: https://laii.unm.edu/news/2017/11/laii-phd-fellow-fiorella-vera-adrianzen.html

Education

indigenous languages, quechua, iyarina, sustainability field schools, amazonia

Lauren Dodaro explains why you should learn an indigenous language

Lauren Dodaro is an Iyarina alumna and a PhD candidate in Tulane University's Anthropology program where she is studying Environmental Anthropology. In this interview she explains the profound impact that learning an indigenous language has had in her life and career

People & Blogs

indigenous languages, sustainability field schools, amazonia, iyarina, kichwa

Travis and John explain why you should learn an indigenous language

John White and Travis Fink are Iyarina alumni and PhD candidates in Tulane University's Anthropology program. In this interview they explain the profound impact that learning an indigenous language has had in their lives and careers

People & Blogs

indigenous languages, sustainability field schools, kichwa, amazonia, Iyarina

To give birth like a shirkillu tree

Film & Animation

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Film & Animation

Eulodia Dagua, "A Ceramic Representation of the Kuaentza River."

Film & Animation

Eulodia Dagua "A man's peccary body"

Film & Animation

Belgica Dagua, On the joy of childhood in the forest

Film & Animation

A Forest Spirit Woman Seeks a Bride for her Son

Dreams

Film & Animation

4-6-19

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Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, "The Strangler Fig Loved a Girl."

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Film & Animation

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Bélgica Dagua, "How Communities Used to Drink Wholesomely."

Film & Animation

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Bélgica Dagua, Deer Papaya: A Deceased Grandfather Returns as a Deer.

Film & Animation

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Bélgica Dagua, A philodendron used as a beauty cream after pregnancy (Philodendron rugosum)."

Philodendron rugosum Araceae

Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, "Hummingbirds warn of rain."

Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, "A bitter flower helps girls make strong chicha."

Film & Animation

Baby toucan

Film & Animation

Eulodia Dagua, Toucan Song for a Girl No One Wants

Film & Animation

Delicia Dagua, "Anaconda Woman Seeks a Bride for her Son."

Film & Animation

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Andes Amazon Field School

People & Blogs

Andes, Amazon, Field, School

Eulodia Dagua, "A girl receives the ceramic skill of the cicadas"

Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, Why you should not kill geckos

Film & Animation

"River foam cures heartbreak."

Film & Animation

Delicia, Canua Sapo

Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, "How the papanko flower reveals the gender of a baby still in the womb."

Film & Animation

Bélgica Dagua, "Wawa tukuk tsuan: The woodpecker that predicts the birth of a crying baby."

Film & Animation

Eulodia Cadena, Chuchu Ala: The Breast Milk Mushroom

Film & Animation

Sleep little baby! A hawk is coming!

Amazonian Kichwa Lullaby

Film & Animation

4-6-19

Eulodia Sweeping Taili

Film & Animation

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Eulodia Dagua, "Newborn Child Dies Like the Snake His Father Killed."

This video illustrates how, in Quichua thinking, the human body is physically connected to the bodies of people and animals with who it is related. In an interview with Tod Swanson Eulodia Dagua tells how her newborn son died with the same bodily movements as those of a dying snake killed by the child's father six days after the birth.

Film & Animation

Luisa Cadena, "“First Woman Sends Her Children Away to Become Animals.”

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Film & Animation

Eulodia Dagua, "The Garden of Another Will Drink Your Blood."

Film & Animation

Eulodia Dagua, Red Mushroom Woman Gives a Rash

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Eulodia Dagua, Babies Cry Like the Animals We Eat."

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Film & Animation

THE AMAZONIAN SOCIAL RELATION TO NATURE

Shared Bodies

Intimately explore stories through audio visual expression...

All Videos

Old version Promo Solar Canoe

Fiorella Vera-Adrianzen explains why you should learn an indigenous language

Lauren Dodaro explains why you should learn an indigenous language

Travis and John explain why you should learn an indigenous language

To give birth like a shirkillu tree

Clip11 1

Eulodia Dagua, "A Ceramic Representation of the Kuaentza River."

Eulodia Dagua "A man's peccary body"

Belgica Dagua, On the joy of childhood in the forest

A Forest Spirit Woman Seeks a Bride for her Son

IMG 8425

Bélgica Dagua, "The Strangler Fig Loved a Girl."

Bélgica Dagua, "How Communities Used to Drink Wholesomely."

Bélgica Dagua, Deer Papaya: A Deceased Grandfather Returns as a Deer.

Bélgica Dagua, A philodendron used as a beauty cream after pregnancy (Philodendron rugosum)."

Bélgica Dagua, "Hummingbirds warn of rain."

Bélgica Dagua, "A bitter flower helps girls make strong chicha."

Baby toucan

Eulodia Dagua, Toucan Song for a Girl No One Wants

Delicia Dagua, "Anaconda Woman Seeks a Bride for her Son."

Andes Amazon Field School

Eulodia Dagua, "A girl receives the ceramic skill of the cicadas"

Bélgica Dagua, Why you should not kill geckos

"River foam cures heartbreak."

Delicia, Canua Sapo

Bélgica Dagua, "How the papanko flower reveals the gender of a baby still in the womb."

Bélgica Dagua, "Wawa tukuk tsuan: The woodpecker that predicts the birth of a crying baby."

Eulodia Cadena, Chuchu Ala: The Breast Milk Mushroom

Sleep little baby! A hawk is coming!

Eulodia Sweeping Taili

Eulodia Dagua, "Newborn Child Dies Like the Snake His Father Killed."

Luisa Cadena, "“First Woman Sends Her Children Away to Become Animals.”

Eulodia Dagua, "The Garden of Another Will Drink Your Blood."

Eulodia Dagua, Red Mushroom Woman Gives a Rash

Eulodia Dagua, Babies Cry Like the Animals We Eat."

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