Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics
by Norman E. Whitten
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Millennial Ecuador is a superb collection of essays by leading anthropologists, historians, and indigenous intellectuals that provides a multifaceted, critical view of the social and cultural practices 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 show more confrontations, the book constitutes an outstanding analysis of the contradictions of modern and millennial gl show lessTags
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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 show more 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. show less
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Art & Design
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- 305.898 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups South American native peoples
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- F3721.3 .S65 .M55 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Ecuador
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