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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.