Kukama Runa: Polyphonic Aesthetics in  Cine Comunitario  Among the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador | Zendy

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Kukama Runa: Polyphonic Aesthetics in Cine Comunitario Among the Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador

Author(s) -

Bermúdez A. Patricia,

Uzendoski Michael A.

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

anthropology and humanism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1548-1409

pISSN - 1559-9167

DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12197

Subject(s) - polyphony , communitas , mythology , movie theater , narrative , amazonian , sociology , poetics , art , aesthetics , humanities , art history , literature , poetry , liminality , amazon rainforest , ecology , biology

SUMMARY This essay describes a collective experience of cine comunitario (community cinema) as a humanistic method for (re)telling narratives, for working in a polyphonic audiovisual mode, and for transmitting ontological perspectives of life, poetics, and communitas to diverse audiences. Specifically, we share our story of a collective journey, that of making the Kichwa film Kukama Runa, a 36‐minute fictional work based on a Napo Runa myth.

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