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1 online resource (xvii, 417 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Modern political transformation of the Secoya / Kris Lane -- Haunting the present : five colonial legacies for the new millennium / Rachel Corr -- 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 -- 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecuador -- Social conditions.
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Ecuador. |
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Social conditions. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions.
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Indians of South America. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Government relations.
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous peoples. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Government relations.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Politics and government.
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Ecuador -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
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Ecuador -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Ecuador -- Politics and government.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Millennial Ecuador. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 0877458634 0877458642 (DLC) 2003050741 (OCoLC)52239519 |
| ISBN |
1587294486 (electronic book) |
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9781587294488 (electronic book) |
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0877458634 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877458630 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0877458642 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877458647 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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