power and knowledge: discourse and ideological transformation among the Shuar

Abstract

Language is constitutive of social reality through the constant articulation and reinforcement of significant linguistic concepts, which give meaning to social relations. Among the Shuar of southeastern Ecuador, discourses on power and knowledge validate the traditional ideological structure and create a new ideological structure through the mobilization of meaning in political speech that legitimates relations of domination. Ideological transformation is assisted by a cultural predisposition to seek non‐Shuar sources of technical and symbolic knowledge in the acquisition of power.

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