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Millennial Ecuador [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Essays Cultural Transformations



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Autore: Whitten Norman E Visualizza persona
Titolo: Millennial Ecuador [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Essays Cultural Transformations Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
Disciplina: 305.898/0866
305.8980866
Soggetto topico: Ecuador -- Politics and government
Ecuador -- Race relations
Ecuador -- Social conditions
Ecuador -- Social policy
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Government relations
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions
Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Government relations
Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Politics and government
Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Social conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Millennial Ecuador  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-448-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450817503321
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