Feeling with the Land: Llakichina and the Emotional Life of Relatedness in Amazonian Kichwa Thinking

This article explores how traditional Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon experience and practice emotional life. In particular, we focus on the centrality accorded to acts intended to elicit compassion in others (llakichina) and on the role these acts play in holding communities together. We arg...

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Published in:Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2022-12, Vol.90 (4), p.954-972
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