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Millennial Ecuador : critical essays on cultural transformations and social dynamics
In the past decade, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement, and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Association of Black Ecuadorians, all of which have contributed substantially to a new constitution proclaiming the country to be “multiethnic and multicultural.” Furthermore, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist president, who immediately appointed two indigenous persons to his cabinet. In this volume, eleven critical essays plus a lengthy introduction and a timely epilogue explore the multicultural forces that have allowed Ecuador's indigenous peoples to have such dramatic effects on the nation's political structure.
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Millennial Ecuador
In the past decade, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement, and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Association of Black Ecuadorians, all of which have contributed substantially to a new constitution proclaiming the country to be \"multiethnic and multicultural.\" Furthermore, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist president, who immediately appointed two indigenous persons to his cabinet. In this volume, eleven critical essays plus a lengthy introduction and a timely epilogue explore the multicultural forces that have allowed Ecuador's indigenous peoples to have such dramatic effects on the nation's political structure.
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The Longue Durée of Racial Fixity and the Transformative Conjunctures of Racial Blending
The new human beings of the modern world—español, indio, negro, mestizo, mulato, sambo—were born out of the same upheaval that made \"nations,\" \"bureaucrats,\" \"slavers,\" \"global merchants,\" and \"colonies.\" It was the modern world's signature to etch economic dominance and political supremacy into a radical cultural design. It was also its signature to hide the social relations that were brewing supremacy and conflict behind a semblance of \"race things\". Irene Silverblatt (2004:5) As tends to happen with martyrs and saints, any undercurrent of doubt is usually excised from the biographies of key figures associated with the defense of Latin America's unique mesticity. Marilyn Grace Miller (2004:14)
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Return of the Yumbo: the indigenous Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito
The indigenous march in Ecuador in 1992 (the Caminata) from upper Amazonia to Andean Quito is one of many similar counterhegemonic events taking place over the past decade in Latin America. It began as a peaceful, pragmatic movement to gain land usufruct and soon became a veritable theater of symbolic action. In this article we portray, explicate, and analyze the symbolic dimensions of this march as they were externalized and dramatized in indigenous discourse during and after the Caminata. We also discuss the national audience reaction to this ritual drama by drawing from disseminated interpretations in the national media and discuss the political aftermath of indigenous movements in Ecuador through June 1996. [practical action, ritual, symbolism, indigenous march, Ecuador, Amazonia, Andes]
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a well-disciplined diet
Whitten and Whitten reply to Jeremy Coote's criticisms of their introduction to the book \"Imagery and Creativity.\" Coote criticized the overlapping of disciplines in the book, but it is argued that academic disciplines' boundaries beg to be traversed because only then can a horizon of knowledge expand.
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