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1	Plants, Protests, Pachakuti: How Trees March and How People Tree Lundquist, Ashley A 27 January 2025 (has links) (PDF) This thesis explores the multi-faceted role of plants, specifically Wituk and Manduru, in Amazonian protests and environmental advocacy. By examining the communicative and relational ontologies inherent in Runa culture, the study elucidates how plants influence social movements and contribute to environmental protection. Wituk and Manduru create paint. Paint facilitates good communication which creates good relationality. Good relationality allows for increased capacities and inhibits greedy consumption allowing for a balanced world order. Through the use and agency of Wituk and Manduru, movements become multi-species phenomena in which ecological entities combine with Runa bodies. The relationships shared between Runa, Wituk, and Manduru are powerful and result in desired environmental outcomes that oppose the consumptive practices that have the potential to end the world. Runa Kichwa Quichua apocalypse Amazon face paint wituk huituj manduru pachakuti Ecuador protest civic engagement Family, Life Course, and Society