Title Millennial Ecuador : critical essays on cultural transformations and social dynamics / edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 417 pages) Contents The modern political transformation of the Secoya / Kris Lane -- Haunting the present : five colonial legacies for the new millennium / Rachel Corr -- The Catholic church, ritual, and power in Salasaca / Michael A. Uzendoski -- Purgatory, Protestantism, and peonage : Napo Runa evangelicals and the domestication of the masculine will / Diego Quiroga -- The devil and development in Esmeraldas : cosmology as a system of critical thought / Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Dorothea Scott Whitten, Alfonso Chango -- Return of the Yumbo : the Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito / Luis Macas, Linda Belote, Jim Belote -- Indigenous destiny in indigenous hands / Dorothea Scott Whitten -- Actors and artists from Amazonia and the Andes / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld -- Tigua migrant communities and the possibilities for autonomy among urban Iindg̕enas / Jean Muteba Rahir -- Racist stereotypes and the embodiment of blackness : some narratives of female sexuality in Quito / Mary J. Weismantel -- Mothers of the patria : la chola cuencana and la mama negra / Norman E. Whitten, Jr Summary 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 gl Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Government relations Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Politics and government SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Indians of South America -- Government relations Indians of South America -- Politics and government Indians of South America -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Politics and government Race relations Social conditions Social policy SUBJECT Ecuador -- Social conditions Ecuador -- Social policy Ecuador -- Race relations Ecuador -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040915 Subject Ecuador Form Electronic book Author Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937- LC no. 2003050741 ISBN 1587294486 9781587294488 0877458642 9780877458647

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