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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 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 .