Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador

by Norman E. Whitten Jr., Dorothea S. Whitten

The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from Ecuador's 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.

253 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011