Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador - Hardcover

Whitten, Norman E.; Whitten, Dorothea Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252036034 ISBN 13: 9780252036033

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2011

Synopsis

The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from the major Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and its ongoing aftermath in which indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian action transformed the nation-state and established new dimensions of human relationships. The authors weave anthropological theory with longitudinal Ecuadorian ethnography to produce a unique contribution to Latin American Studies.

About this title

Book Description:

A unique examination of ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavor focused on indigenous and Afro-descended Ecuadorian people

About the Author:

Norman E. Whitten Jr., a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the editor of the University of Illinois Press's series Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium. Dorothea Scott Whitten is a research associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a Curator of the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They have collaborated on many projects, including Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0252036034
• ISBN 13: 9780252036033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280