The Wao Feelingt: The Emotionality as an Identity Marker among the Waorani
Abstract
Among the Waorani, an indigenous group from the northeastern Ecuador, there is a double understanding of what it means to be it. On the one hand, the Waorani condition refers to a dynamic and to some extent flexible position within the global set of beings recognized by themselves. However, some emotional behaviors that develop in situations that could be described as extreme act as an ontological barrier around which a rigid and fixed separation is established between the human being (waorani) and the non-human being (cowori). This frontier is not only based on a shared emotional understanding, but it is established fundamentally based on an empathic involvement and participation only by the Waorani and, therefore, forbidden to the non-Waorani.
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