Author : David Syring
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292760930
"The first humanistic portrait of life among southern Ecuador's Saraguros, this work includes a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist, the role of cross-cultural understanding in the Andean Highlands and beyond, and the meaning of the good life in different cultural contexts; it further considers how contemporary globalization shapes people's lives and thought"--
Author : Kendall A. King
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781853594946
This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853594922
Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.
Author : R Mansell Prothero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113686590X
Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic, ecological, social, and economic points of view. Contributions from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific come from an international group of authors representing a variety of disciplines in the social sciences. All who are concerned with social and economic development need to recognise the importance of circulation at all levels of society and polity.
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Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
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Author : William R. Swan
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Community forests
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Virginia J. Vitzthum
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Andes Region
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Author : Norman Earl Whitten (Jr.)
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Author : Norman E Whitten
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : History
ISBN :
Millennial Ecuador is a superb collection of essays by leading anthropoligists, historians, and indigenous intellectuals that provides a multifaceted, critical view of the social and cultural pratices 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 globality of local cases.--Fernando Santos-Granero, author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru
