The Ecuador reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler.
Product Description: Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader. Spanning the years b...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conquest And Colonial Rule: Ecuador's pre-columbian past / Tamara Bray
- Ancestors, grave robbers, and the possible antecedents of canari "inca-ism" / Frank Salomon
- Building a life in colonial Quito: Jose Jaime Ortiz, architect and entrepreneur / Susan V Webster
- Finding freedom: slavery in colonial Ecuador / Sherwin K Bryant
- Battle of wills: inventing chiefly legitimacy in the colonial North Andes / Karen Vieira Powers
- Manuela Saenz: Americana or Quitena? / Sarah C Chambers
- State, missionaries, and native consciousness in the Upper Amazon, 1767-1896 / Blanca Muratorio
- 2. New Nation: Construction of a ventriloquist's image: liberal discourse and the "miserable indian race" in the late nineteenth century / Andres Guerrero
- Four years among the Ecuadorians / Friedrich Hassaurek
- Selection from Juan Montalvo (1832-1889) / Juan Montalvo
- Railway and nation in liberal Ecuador / A Kim Clark
- Guayaquil and coastal Ecuador during the Cacao era / Ronn Pineo
- Mountaineering on the Equator: a historical perspective / Rob Rachowiecki.
- 3. Rise Of The Popular: Portrait of a people / Albert B Franklin
- You are not my president / Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
- Wonderland / Raphael V Lasso
- Patron and peon on an Andean Hacienda / Jorge Icaza
- Man who was kicked to death / Pablo Palacio
- Indian's cabin / Henri Michaux
- Heroic Pueblo of Guayaquil / Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
- 4. Global Currents: Two experiments in education for democracy / Galo Plaza Lasso
- Origins of the Ecuadorian left / Adrian Bonilla
- Progressive Catholic Church and the indigenous movement in Ecuador / Carmen Martinez Novo
- Man of ashes / Salomon Isacovici and Juan Manuel Rodriguez
- Men of the rails and of the sea / Pablo Cuvi
- Creolization and African diaspora cultures: the case of the Afro-Esmeraldian Decimas / Jean Muteba Rahier
- Julio Jaramillo and music as identity / Hernan Ibarra
- United fruit company's legacy in Ecuador / Steve Striffler
- Panama hat trail / Tom Miller
- Deforestation in Ecuador / Diane C Bates
- Civilization and barbarism / Carlos de la Torre
- Deinstitutionalized democracy / Felipe Burbano de Lara
- 5. Domination And Struggle: Nina Pacari, an interview / Carlos de la Torre
- Women's movements in twentieth-century Ecuador / Sarah A Radcliffe
- Galapagos: environmental pressures and social opportunities / Pablo Ospina
- Emerald freedom: "with pride in the face of the sun" / Norman E Whitten Jr
- Suing Chevron Texaco / Suzana Sawyer
- Arts of Amazonian and Andean women / Dorothea Scott Whitten
- 6. Cultures And Identities Redefined: National identity and the first black Miss Ecuador (1995-96) / Jean Muteba Rahier
- Ecuadorian international migration / Brad D Jokisch and David Kyle
- Cities of women / Mary J Weismantel
- Traditional foods of Ecuador / Noemi Espinosa
- Globalization from below and the political turn among Otavalo's merchant artisans / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
- Pancho Jaime / X Andrade
- Big angel, my love / Javier Vasconez
- Nature and humanity through poetry / Maria Fernanda Espinosa
- Simple people / Barry Lyons, with Angel Aranda and Dina Guevara
- Writings of Ivan Onate / Ivan Onate
- Suggestions for further reading
- Acknowledgment of copyrights
- Index.