What we do  

The “social relation to nature” refers to an Amazonian way of knowing by engaging the nonhuman world socially, as though it had the full range of human emotions.  Plants, animals, or even earth are believed to feel lonely and to desire company across species lines; but also to be shy, desire privacy, to sometimes be resentful or to withdraw from human company.   Empathy for human need sometimes causes them to be generous offering themselves for food or medicine.  On the other hand, they can be ambivalent, resentful,  take revenge for the death of their relatives.  

This project records and organizes this a way of living with 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... It also links these videos to stages of the human life cycle through which nature is experienced socially."

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Kichwa traditions on particular plants or animals can be searched by species.