Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador

Resumen

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: To Remake the World 1 Prelude 23 1. Colonial Mentality in Making the World 25 Prelude 43 2. Indigenous Constructions of Blackness 45 Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Rachel Corr Prelude 65 3. The Topology of El Mestizaje 67 Prelude 91 4. The Ecuadorian Indigenous Uprising of 1990 93 Prelude 115 5. Ecuador in the New Millennium 117 Prelude 141 6. Indigenous Ethnographers Portray Their World 143 Dorothea Scott Whitten Prelude 163 7. Indigenous Modernity 165 Conclusion: Ethnography and Theory in Cultural Life 187 Notes 203 References 211 Index 243