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Michael Uzendoski

Associate Professor In Spanish

Office: Diffenbaugh Bldg. Room 308

Fax: 850-644-0524

Email: muzendoski@fsu.edu

Professor Uzendoski holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology. His work focuses on the Amazonian Kichwa (Quichua) languages and cultures within the larger context of Amazonian and Andean realities.

Research Interests:

Symbolic Anthropology
Mythology
Ethnooetics
Material Approaches to Language and Culture
Latin America

Selected Publications:

2012 The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa. University of Illinois Press (co-authored with Edith F. Calapucha-Tapuy).
2010 Los Napo Runa de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Quito: Abya-Yala (Translated by Naida Saavedra).
2010 "Fractal Subjectivities: An Amazonian Inspired Critique of Globalization Theory." In Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in Amazonia, Edited by Frank Hutchins and Patrick C. Wilson University of Nebraska Press.
2009 "La Textualidad Oral Napo Kichwa y Las Paradojas de la Educación Bilingüe Intercultural en la Amazonia." in Carmen Martínez (ed.) Repensando las identidades y políticas indígenas en América Latina. Quito: FLACSO.
2004 Manioc Beer and Meat: Value, Reproduction, and Cosmic Substance among the Napo Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10(4): 883-902
2004 The Horizontal Archipelago: The Quijos Upper Napo Regional System. Ethnohistory51(2):318-357

Courses Taught at FSU:

LIN 4930/5930 Ethnopoetics
SPN 3520 Cultures of Latin America
SPW 4190 Indigenous Mythology of Latin America
FOL 5934r. Latin American Culture and History (co-taught with Robinson Herrera in Department of History)

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