Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays Cultural Transformations
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877458642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Whitten Jr., is a professor of anthropology, professor and director of Latin American and Caribbean studies, and curator at the Spurlock Museum, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Norman E
A welcome collection of papers on contemporary Ecuador Stephen D. Glazier This welcome collection brings together research by anthropologists, historians, and indigenouos scholars who offer a comprehensive overview of the social and political dynamics of contemporary Ecuador. Contributors document practices of Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples as they struggle to address pressing issues in their personal lives. Whitten puts papers in context by providing a preface, a thorough introduction, and an epilogue updating the Ecuadorian pol
In their descriptions and analyses, they bring together interpretive anthropological, sociological and historical scholarshop to consider these transcultural and intercultural phenomena. systems of local-level aesthetics, ritual and cosmology and the national polical-economic transformations that have shaped this paradoxical, globalizing nation. In this volume, 11 critical essays, plus a lengthy introduction and epilogue explore the multicultural forces that have allowed Ecuador's indigenous peoples to have such dramatic effects on the nation's political structure. throughout the Americas, these essays should appeal to Latin Americanists, social scientists and humanists of the Andes and ia, and, in particular, anthropologists as well as undergraduates and graduate students.. Furthermore, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist president, who immediately appointed two indigenous persons to his cabinet. Since the 1980s, 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 Associations of Black Ecuadorians, all of which have contributed substantially to a new constitution proclaiming the countr
"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, ian, 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 cont