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Histories of the present : people and power in Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten Jr. & Dorothea Scott Whitten.
Van Pelt Library F3721.3.E84 W55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Ecuador--Ethnic identity.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Cultural assimilation--Ecuador.
- Indians of South America--Cultural assimilation.
- Social policy.
- Race relations.
- Acculturation.
- Ethnicity.
- Ecuador.
- Indians of South America--Government relations.
- Ethnicity--Ecuador.
- Acculturation--Ecuador.
- Ecuador--Race relations.
- Ecuador--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Drawn from the authors' work over the last twenty years with indigenous populations of Ecuador and catalyzed by the uprising of 1990, this volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of Ecuadorian identity focusing on ethnographic studies, anthropological evaluations of indigenous art and literary analysis to examine the Ecuadorian view of their world. Each essay in the volume includes a prelude discussing its provenance and the intentions of the authors in the development of each piece. The volume includes several figures and maps as well as four full color plates. Norman Whitten is professor emeritus of anthropology and Scott Whitten is a research associate, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Prelude 23
- 1 Colonial Mentality in Making the World 25
- Prelude 43
- 2 Indigenous Constructions of "Blackness" Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Rachel Corr 45
- Prelude 65
- 3 The Topology of El Mestizaje 67
- Prelude 91
- 4 The Ecuadorian Indigenous Uprising of 1990 93
- Prelude 115
- 5 Ecuador in the New Millennium 117
- Prelude 141
- 6 Indigenous Ethnographers Portray Their World Dorothea Scott Whitten 143
- Prelude 163
- 7 Indigenous Modernity 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252036033
- 0252036034
- 9780252077975
- 0252077970
- OCLC:
- 670480109
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