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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ecuadorians of Quechua Descent, Huaorani People, Eugenio Espejo, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Mincaye, Luis Macas, Antonio Vargas. Excerpt: Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (Royal Audience of Quito, 17471795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of mestizo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in colonial Ecuador. He was Quito's first journalist and hygienist. As a journalist he spread enlightened ideas in the Royal Audience, and as a hygienist he composed an important treatise about sanitary conditions in colonial Ecuador that included interesting remarks about microorganisms and the spreading of disease. Espejo was noted in his time for being a satirist. His satirical works, inspired by the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, were critical of the lack of education of the Royal Audience of Quito, the way economy was being handled in the Audience, the corruption of its authorities, and aspects of its culture in general. Because of these works he was persecuted and finally imprisoned shortly before his death. The Royal Audience of Quito (or Presidency of Quito) was established as part of the Spanish State by Philip II of Spain on August 29, 1563. It was a court of the Spanish Crown with jurisdiction over certain territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru (and later the Viceroyalty of New Granada) that now constitute Ecuador and parts of Peru, Colombia and Brazil. The Royal Audience was created to strengthen administrative control over those territories and to rule the relations between whites and the natives. Its capital was the city of Quito. By the 18th century, the... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1573805 ... Read more

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Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers.

This book is a fascinating look at ideophones--words that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers' discourse--both linguistic and cultural--because they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadena's utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety of voices.

Cadena's narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans. ... Read more

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This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire. ... Read more

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This is a fascinating social anthropological study of the migration of Peruvian highlanders to the jungle east of the Andes and to urban coastal areas in and around Lima. Departing from traditional approaches, Sarah Skar emphasizes the individual problems within the new communities. Working within this context, she goes on to analyze significant themes for this group of migrants, namely the traditional conceptions of separations and connectedness. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Multicultural Education, published by Caddo Gap Press on September 22, 2009. The length of the article is 4455 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Quechua, & Maya: a study of multilingual immigrant students & their families.(Report)
Author: Carlos Perez
Publication: Multicultural Education (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Caddo Gap Press
Volume: 17Issue: 1Page: 22

Article Type: Report

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Title: Quechua Huaylla Wanca Language / Version: 2006 The Bible League Nuevo Testamento / It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 6 to 8 million speakers.Binding: MP3 CDPublication date: 2008 ... Read more

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Ethnography at its best
I would second what the other reviewer said. The book is refreshingly free of jargon and written with an open, humble tone. The author clearly is a good listener who does not jump to quick conclusions or make snap judgments about people. Her discussion of the controversies over bilingual education programs in Peru--and the differing views of state officials, ngos, activists, and community members--is fascinating, as is the discussion in the last full chapter of changing notions of what it means to be indigenous. Again, no post-modern jargon here--just an eye for complexity. She also offer some challenging thoughts on the notion of Peru having an absence of indigenous activism compared to Ecuador or Bolivia. Again, she does that with a lack of pretension or scholarly self-righteousness that is welcom. I just used it with my undergrads in a polisci class with great success. If this topic interests you, this is an important book to read.

Do not miss this incredibly important addition to Andean and indigenous studies!!!
Maria Elena Garcia, an anthropologist who has worked for years in the Cusco area of the Peruvian Andes has written an amazingly smart, compact and readable work on indigenous Quechua organizing. Combine this with Marisol de la Cadena's Indigenous Mestizos and you have the most complete, historically profound discussion of the eternal question: In a country with so many indigenous, why has Peru not established a national Indian movement like its neighbors in Ecuador (Quichua), Chile (Mapuche) and Bolivia (Ayamara/Quechua)?? Garcia smashes our preconceived notions of what counts as indigenous and who dictates the form of how indigeneity is perceived from a transnational perspective. This book fills a huge gap in the literature on indigenous movements in the Andes: it should be on the bookshelves of every student of indigeneity or the Andes, it would be an excellent assignment for undergraduate or graduate classes and it should also interest people who simply want to better understand this fascinating and long-suffering country. Wonderfully profound and enjoyable work from an exciting new scholar.Also recommended in combination is Orin Starn's Nightwatch. ... Read more

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The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rocky island into a community-controlled enterprise that now provides a model for indigenous communities worldwide.

Over the course of three decades and nearly two years living on Taquile Island, Zorn, who is trained in both the arts and anthropology, learned to weave from Taquilean women. She also learned how gender structures both the traditional lifestyles and the changes that tourism and transnationalism have brought. In her comprehensive and accessible study, she reveals how Taquileans used their isolation, landownership, and communal organizations to negotiate the pitfalls of globalization and modernization and even to benefit from tourism. This multi-sited ethnography set in Peru, Washington, D.C., and New York City shows why and how cloth remains central to Andean society and how the marketing of textiles provided the experience and money for Taquilean initiatives in controlling tourism.

The first book about tourism in South America that centers on traditional arts as well as community control, Weaving a Future will be of great interest to anthropologists and scholars and practitioners of tourism, grassroots development, and the fiber arts. ... Read more

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On the eve of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, peoples throughout the Andes brewed beer from corn and other grains, believing that this alcoholic beverage, called asua, was a gift from the gods, a drink possessing the power to mediate between the human and divine. Consuming asua to intoxication was a sacred tradition that humans and spirits shared, creating reciprocal joy and ties of mutual obligation.

When Butler began research in Huaycopungo, Ecuador, in 1977, ceremonial drinking was causing hardship for these Quichua-speaking people. Then, in 1987, a devastating earthquake was interpreted as a message from God to end the ritual obligation to get drunk.

Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation examines how the defense of drinking and getting drunk ended abruptly as the people of Otavalo re-evaluated their traditional religious life and their relationship with the wider Ecuadorian society, and defended a renewed traditional indigenous culture with increasing pride. This account presents both the local people’s views of their struggles and a more general analysis of the factors involved, and concludes with thoughts about how their culture will adapt in the future. ... Read more

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Edit, please
This is a very poorly written piece of history.I'm not an expert on the topic but I know that most English teaches would have returned this.He should have improved the writing and the editors should have intervened.

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This is a very poorly written piece of history.I'm not an expert on the topic but I know that most English teaches would have returned this.He should have improved the writing and the editors should have intervened.

Insightful view of Indians and nation in 19th-century Peru
Mark Thurner's recent FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED is a landmark contribution to Andean history and historical anthroplogy writ large--a book bound to provoke healthy controversy among scholars and studentsalike. This is the first book-length study to deploy insights from"post-colonial" theory to explore the complex roles of indigenouspeoples in the politics and political imagination of republican Peru. Basedon remarkable archival research about indigenous communities and the statein the little-studied Huaylas-Ancash region, the book begins by insightfulytracing the paradoxical fate of the so-called colonial "Indianrepublics" in early republican politics. The second half of the bookzeros in on the Atusparia revolt of the latter part of the century, as asign of the widening gulf between Creole nationhood and indigenous politicsas Peru approached the 20th century. All in all, Thurner offers a complexand thoughtful alternative to both "integrationist" and"resistance" visions of the role of Indians in theliberal-republican world, and in its theoretical sections new ways ofthinking about ethnicity and the "national problem" across LatinAmerican history. The American Historical Review already hails this work as"an important book" that provides a "pathbreaking analysisof peasants'use of republican discourse." The Hispanic AmericanHistorical Review proclaims it a "sophisticated study" with"impressive" "intellectual and analytical power".Whatever, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED ought be on the shelf of everyserious (and not-so-serious) student of the region. ... Read more

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“It is difficult to convey the wealth of information and ideas in this remarkable book. It is—and may remain for a long time—the best work in any language on the process of change in Andean society under Inca and Spanish rule.”—Hispanic American Historical Review
“A study of such high quality, realized on so many levels, is indeed a rarity today.”—Latin America in Books ... Read more

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This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages. ... Read more

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Stardog, an inveterate explorer of indigenous cultures, is a rather ignoble, self-serving, and yet endearing dog.In this book she travels to Peru and settles, for a year, with a Quechua family in an Andean village.Through a humorous, engaging mixture of story and information, children will learn, along with Stardog, about the everyday lifestyle, traditions and history of the Quechua people, as well as about the geography and climate of Peru. ... Read more

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This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000, and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985. ... Read more

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The best available book on Q'ero
This is a wonderful book written by an anthropologist who spent several years in an isolated Andean ayllu (community) located a good number of miles from the provincial center of Colquepata. The attraction of this book is that, unlike most authors responsible for the ever proliferating literature on Andean peoples and their practices, Allen actually lived with the Indians, participated in their ceremonies, potato planting, festivals and travels. The book provides priceless descriptions of the labor divisions between men, women and children and of the interactions between the runa (i.e.,Qechua for "people") themselves, between the runa and the city-dwelling mestizos and, perhaps most poignantly, between the people and the land.The land for the Andean peasant is a living breathing organism that needs to be loved, feared and placated with gifts.Each and every horizon marker has a personality, every hill possesses power and there are spirit beings inhabiting different "power spots" from the time immemorial.The interactions between the people, the ancestors, the spirits and the land are part of the reality that needs to be reinforced every single day through little rituals, such as greeting the sun as one steps out of the door early in the morning.

Coca represented here part of the glue that held everything together. The rituals that underlie coca chewing bind people in a neverending cycle of mutual obligation; in addition, coca is used as a main ingredient of despachos (ritual offerings) and a source of quiet energy during exhaustive labor on potato fields. Unfortunately, as a result of the demand for processed coca, cocaine, in the US, and the resulting pressure on the Andean countries by coca dealers and foreign goverements alike, the Peruvian peasants have found their access to raw coca leaves (non-addictive) severely limited, which affects a crucial aspect of their culture and cultural identity.

Allen depicts all these elements (and much much more)in a simple yet poignant narrative. Everything is exactly where it should be - she brings us close to the individual members of her extended ayllu so that the reader herself can participate. I found the frequent inserts of Quechua phrases especially useful, providing a direct link into the mode of the Andean thought.

I highy recommend this book. probably the best one available, if you want to visit Qero regions in peru.

A rather intricate look at rustic Andean life and rituals
Allen's work was rather fascinating.She provided an in depth look at the Runa, a small group of townspeople who adhere to customs of ancient Incan and colonial Spanish civilization.She does an especially good job atexploring the role that Coca chewing plays in their society and indeterming their identity.Their rituals and customs will fascinate you. Beware, this book is not for the unsophisticated reader.It's a good read,but requires some thought and exploration to truly appreciate it. ... Read more

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In the same era as the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, a powerful anticolonial movement swept across the highland Andes in 1780-1781. Initially unified around Túpac Amaru, a descendant of Inka royalty from Cuzco, it reached its most radical and violent phase in the region of La Paz (present-day Bolivia) where Aymara-speaking Indians waged war against Europeans under the peasant commander Túpaj Katari. The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the "Age of Revolution," but in this book Sinclair Thomson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

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Explores the interwoven effects of writing, witchcraft, magic, and religion in social and political areas for the SalasacasThis is a case study of the interwoven effects of writing, witchcraft, magic, and religion on power such as birth certificates, baptism records, land titles, and tax records are very much a part of the same world in which witches keep lists of people to kill or save, the Church keeps lists of ancestors to honor, and God Himself keeps books of the living and the dead. The many aspects of this view of the quasi-magical uses of writing not only reinforce the subordination of nonelite groups with respect to the bureaucratic elites who control archival power, but also define the self-identity of the individuals within the nonelite groups. The book will therefore appeal to those interested in anthropology, literacy, power, or Latin America. ... Read more