The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Published by Duke University Press 2008

The Ecuador Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Edited by: Carlos de la Torre , Steve Striffler , Robin Kirk and Orin Starn

In the series The Latin America Readers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390114

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About this book

An interdisciplinary anthology of work from and about Ecuador, including nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history, and cultural analysis, with many primary resources never before published in English.

Author / Editor information

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 Afroquiteños: Ciudadanía 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.

Reviews

“The Ecuador Reader is a gateway for understanding the volatile and intriguing history of this complex, multicultural land. From José María Velasco Ibarra’s fiery populism to the politics of a contemporary beauty pageant, the book captures the rich diversity of the country’s past and present. It is a major contribution to the study of the Andean world.”—Catherine M. Conaghan, Queen’s University

“The Ecuador Reader offers an intriguing glimpse of the diverse voices and perspectives through which Ecuadorians have engaged the social, political, and cultural challenges of crafting a modern nation. Compiled by two of the leading scholars of Ecuadorian cultural and political thought, the essays in this volume provide testimony to the diversity and creativity of the intellectuals, organizations, communities, and individuals who people Ecuadorian history. The discussions of identity, ethnicity, colonialism, development, culture, and the state found in these pages offer a unique starting point for exploring Ecuador’s historical path from being a colony on the edges of the Inca and Spanish empires to becoming a central player in modern Latin American political debates.”—Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Conquest and Colonial Rule
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Ecuador’s Pre-Columbian Past Tamara Bray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Ancestors, Grave Robbers, and the Possible Antecedents of Cañari “Inca-ism” Frank Salomon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Building a Life in Colonial Quito: José Jaime Ortiz, Architect and Entrepreneur Susan V. Webster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Finding Freedom: Slavery in Colonial Ecuador Sherwin K. Bryant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
A Battle of Wills: Inventing Chiefly Legitimacy in the Colonial North Andes Karen Vieira Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Manuela Sáenz: Americana or Quiteña? Sarah C. Chambers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
The State, Missionaries, and Native Consciousness in the Upper Amazon, 1767–1896 Blanca Muratorio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
II A New Nation
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the “Miserable Indian Race” in the Late Nineteenth Century Andrés Guerrero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Four Years among the Ecuadorians Friedrich Hassaurek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Selection from Juan Montalvo (1832–1889) Juan Montalvo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Railway and Nation in Liberal Ecuador A. Kim Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Guayaquil and Coastal Ecuador during the Cacao Era Ronn Pineo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Mountaineering on the Equator: A Historical Perspective Rob Rachowiecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
III The Rise of the Popular
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Portrait of a People Albert B. Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
You Are Not My President José María Velasco Ibarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
The Wonderland Raphael V. Lasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Patrón and Peon on an Andean Hacienda Jorge Icaza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
The Man Who Was Kicked to Death Pablo Palacio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The Indian’s Cabin Henri Michaux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
“Heroic Pueblo of Guayaquil” José María Velasco Ibarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
IV Global Currents
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Two Experiments in Education for Democracy Galo Plaza Lasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Origins of the Ecuadorian Left Adrián Bonilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
The Progressive Catholic Church and the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador Carmen Martínez Novo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Man of Ashes Salomon Isacovici and Juan Manuel Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Men of the Rails and of the Sea Pablo Cuvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures: The Case of the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas Jean Muteba Rahier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Julio Jaramillo and Music as Identity Hernán Ibarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
The United Fruit Company’s Legacy in Ecuador Steve Striffler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
The Panama Hat Trail Tom Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Deforestation in Ecuador Diane C. Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Civilization and Barbarism Carlos de la Torre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Deinstitutionalized Democracy Felipe Burbano de Lara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
V Domination and Struggle
Nina Pacari, an Interview Carlos de la Torre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Ecuador Sarah A. Radcliffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
The Galápagos: Environmental Pressures and Social Opportunities Pablo Ospina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Emerald Freedom: “With Pride in the Face of the Sun” Norman E. Whitten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Suing ChevronTexaco Suzana Sawyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Arts of Amazonian and Andean Women Dorothea Scott Whitten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
VI Cultures and Identities Redefined
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96) Jean Muteba Rahier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Ecuadorian International Migration Brad D. Jokisch and David Kyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Cities of Women Mary J. Weismantel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Traditional Foods of Ecuador Noemí Espinosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Globalization from Below and the Political Turn among Otavalo’s Merchant Artisans Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Pancho Jaime X. Andrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Big Angel, My Love Javier Vásconez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Nature and Humanity through Poetry María Fernanda Espinosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
“Simple People” Barry Lyons, Angel Aranda and Dina Guevara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
The Writings of Iván Oñate Iván Oñate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Suggestions for Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Acknowledgment of Copyrights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Other: 39 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure

eBook

Published: January 16, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390114