Millennial Ecuador : critical essays on cultural transformations and social dynamics / edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Social conditions.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Government relations.

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador--Politics and government.

Ecuador--Social policy.

Ecuador.

Ecuador--Social conditions.

Ecuador--Race relations.

Ecuador--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Millennial Ecuador is a superb collection of essays by leading anthropologists, historians, and indigenous intellectuals that provides a multifaceted, critical view of the social and cultural practices of Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples engaged in mounting political struggles. Focusing on the clash between structural and contra-structural power, on empowerment processes of traditionally disenfranchised populations, and on multiple and competing representations of current confrontations, the book constitutes an outstanding analysis of the contradictions of modern and millennial gl

Contents:

Notes on Orthography, Pronunciation, and Acronyms; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.; 2. The Modern Political Transformation of the Secoya by William T. Vickers; 3. Haunting the Present: Five Colonial Legacies for the New Millennium by Kris Lane; 4. The Catholic Church, Ritual, and Power in Salasaca by Rachel Corr; 5. Purgatory, Protestantism, and Peonage: Napo Runa Evangelicals and the Domestication of the Masculine Will by Michael A. Uzendoski; 6. The Devil and Development in Esmeraldas: Cosmology as aSystem of Critical Thought by Diego Quiroga

7. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito by Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango 8. Indigenous Destiny in Indigenous Hands by Luis Macas, Linda Belote, and Jim Belote Dorothea Scott Whitten; 9. Actors and Artists from Amazonia and the Andes by Dorothea Scott Whitten; 10. Tigua Migrant Communities and the Possibilities for Autonomy among Urban Indígenas by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld; 11. Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of Blackness:Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito by Jean Muteba Rahier

12. Mothers of the Patria: La Chola Cuencana and La Mama Negra by Mary J. Weismantel 13. Epilogue by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.; Appendix: General Information on Ecuador by Michelle Wibbelsman; Glossary; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587294488

1587294486

OCLC:

56109483