Expanding a Shamanic Purview in Amazonian Ecuador

The shamanic universe of a particular Amazonian people yields information on processes of male shamanic presence and prescience in movement from this world to the spirit world and back. The special shamanic purview is expanded in this article to include female ceramists of indigenous Canelos Quichua Amazonian culture, Ecuadorian interculturality, festivity and political protest, and the intellectualization of shamanic cosmology. It concludes with a section on "distant knowledge and shamanic connectivity" that ranges from the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution to international macro-indigenous identity. Originally prepared in 2009 to honor Michael J. Harner, the article contains a number of personal references and remembrances of the Whittens of Harner's groundbreaking work among the Ecuadorian Shuar.