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The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Name: The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822343745
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Contributors:

Carlos de la Torre (Editor), Steve Striffler (Editor)

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Literary Collections, Travel

Book Subcategory:

Latin America, Caribbean & Latin American, South America

Book Topic:

South America, Ecuador & Galapagos Islands

Series:

Latin America Readers

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Release Date:

2009-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780822343745

Weight:

1.43 lbs

Size:

9.24 x 6.48 x 1.07 inches

Pages:

480

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Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Gal?pagos 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 Jos? Mar?a 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 Quite?o-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 Gal?pagos 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.

About the Author

Carlos de la Torre is Director of the doctoral program in and Chair of Political Studies at FLACSO (La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience and several books in Spanish, including Afroquite?os: Ciudadan?a y Racismo.

Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: the United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 and a coeditor of Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas, both also published by Duke University Press.

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