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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 -- Read More3. 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 -- Read MorePanama 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 -- Read MoreGlobalization 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. Read More |
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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 before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation's integration into the world economy, and its tumultuous twentieth century. Interspersed among forty-eight written selections are more than three dozen images. The voices and creations of Ecuadorian politicians, writers, artists, scholars, activists, and journalists fill the Reader, from Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, the nation's ultimate populist and five-time president, to Pancho Jaime, a political satirist; from Julio Jaramillo, a popular twentieth-century singer, to anonymous indigenous women artists who produced ceramics in the 1500s; and from the poems of Afro-Ecuadorians, to the fiction of the vanguardist Pablo Palacio, to a recipe for traditional Quiteno-style shrimp. The Reader includes an interview with Nina Pacari, the first indigenous woman elected to Ecuador's national assembly, and a reflection on how to balance tourism with the protection of the Galapagos Islands' magnificent ecosystem. Complementing selections by Ecuadorians, many never published in English, are samples of some of the best writing on Ecuador by outsiders, including an account of how an indigenous group with non-Inca origins came to see themselves as definitively Incan, an exploration of the fascination with the Andes from the 1700s to the present, chronicles of the less-than-exemplary behavior of U.S. corporations in Ecuador, an examination of Ecuadorians' overseas migration, and a look at the controversy surrounding the selection of the first black Miss Ecuador. Read More |
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