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For well over a half century, Norman Whitten has spent a third of his professional life undertaking ethnography with Afro-Latin American and Indigenous peoples living in tropical forest-riverine environments of northern South America. He has spent the other two thirds engaged with theory construction in anthropology in institutional settings. In this memoir, he tells of his contributions to ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavor, and de...

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.

A longitudinal ethnography of a changing indigenous culture in Ecuador

The chapters in these volumes excel in describing the diverse culturalresponses of black populations to unique local and national contexts.... Whitten andTorres have produced a valuable collection destined to become a standard referencework on black cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean." -- AmericanAnthropologist To understand the meanings of "blackness"in the African diaspora, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emergedo...

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.

Dorothea Scott Whitten was a research associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Norman E. Whitten Jr. is a curator of the Spurlock Museum. Their works include Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador and Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia .

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." Further-more, January 2003 saw the inauguration of a new populist pre...