Canelos-Quichua
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The Canelos-Quichua, also known as the Quichua of Pastaza, is an Indigenous people of Ecuador. They are a Lowland Quichua (Runa Shimi) people, inhabiting the province of Pastaza on the banks of the Curaray, Bonbonaza, and Pastaza rivers, in Peru and eastern Ecuador.[1]
The Canelos-Quicha take up to three years for courtship, kinship creation, and marriage under the guide of a shaman.[2]
Their physical cultural heritage includes pottery.[3]
They speak a dialect of the Kichwa language, and are one of the Amazonian Kichwas.
References
[edit]- ^ Whitten, Norman E. (December 1, 1978). "Ecological Imagery and Cultural Adaptability: The Canelos Quichua of Eastern Ecuador". American Anthropologist. 80 (4): 836–859. doi:10.1525/aa.1978.80.4.02a00040. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
- ^ Whitten, Norman E.; Whitten, Dorothea S. (1984). ESSAY: The structure of kinship and marriage among the Canelos Quichua of east-central Ecuador - in: In Marriage Practices in Lowland South America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 194–220, 265–283. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
- ^ Whitten, Norman E.; Whitten, Dorothea S. (1978). "Ceramics of the Canelos Quichua". Natural History. 87 (8): 90–99. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
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