Author : Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.)
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Author : Norman E. Whitten (Jr.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Norman E Whitten
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1587294486
In the past decade, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement, and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Association of Black Ecuadorians, all of which have contributed substantially to a new constitution proclaiming the country to be “multiethnic and multicultural.” Furthermore, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist president, who immediately appointed two indigenous persons to his cabinet. In this volume, eleven critical essays plus a lengthy introduction and a timely epilogue explore the multicultural forces that have allowed Ecuador's indigenous peoples to have such dramatic effects on the nation's political structure.
Author : Raúl L. Madrid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521195594
Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.
Author : Michelle Wibbelsman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252092872
This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and technological developments. Rituals have persisted among this ethnic community as important processes for symbolically capturing and critically assessing cultural changes in the face of modern influences. As religious expression, political commentary, transcendental communication, moral judgment, and transformative experience, Otavalan rituals constitute enduring practices that affirm ethnic identities, challenge dominant narratives, and take issue with power inequalities behind hegemony. Ritual Encounters thus offers an appreciation of the modern and mythic community as a single and emergent condition.
Author : Emilio F Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000315932
This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
Author : Charles D. Kleymeyer
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781555874612
Argues that a people's own cultural heritage is the foundation on which equitable and sustainable development can best be built. The authors provide illustrations from 215 cases in 30 countries, ranging from adult literacy centres to reforestation and conservation efforts.
Author : Ann Miles
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029277852X
Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity. Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995 he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological story of Vicente's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global economy. Anthropologist Ann Miles has known the Quitasacas since 1989. Her long acquaintance with the family allows her to delve deeply into the factors that eventually impelled the oldest son to make the difficult and dangerous journey to the United States as an undocumented migrant. Focusing on each family member in turn, Miles explores their varying perceptions of social inequality and racism in Ecuador and their reactions to Vicente's migration. As family members speak about Vicente's new, hard-to-imagine life in America, they reveal how transnational migration becomes a symbol of failure, hope, resignation, and promise for poor people in struggling economies. Miles frames this fascinating family biography with an analysis of the historical and structural conditions that encourage transnational migration, so that the Quitasacas' story becomes a vivid firsthand illustration of this growing global phenomenon.
Author : George Baca
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9781845452353
As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi cultural nation-states. This way, each contributor analytically treats racism and its related concepts of race, identity, culture, and naturalizing symbols of blood to highlight the manner in which governing institutions use nationalist precepts to create "races". In the end, it is racism - the actual political practices of domination - that makes "race" salient, especially in its multi-cultural and liberal-democratic form.
Author : Linda A. Newson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806126975
"Historical demography for 16th- and 17th-century Ecuador. The book's regional framework reveals major differences in mortality rates. Calculates that depopulation in the Sierra during the 16th century was four times that of the Coast"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
