Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Conquest and Colonial Rule
6. Introduction 9
7. Ecuador’s Pre-Columbian Past 15
8. Ancestors, Grave Robbers, and the Possible Antecedents of Cañari “Inca-ism” 27
9. Building a Life in Colonial Quito: José Jaime Ortiz, Architect and Entrepreneur 40
10. Finding Freedom: Slavery in Colonial Ecuador 52
11. A Battle of Wills: Inventing Chiefly Legitimacy in the Colonial North Andes 68
12. Manuela Sáenz: Americana or Quiteña? 79
13. The State, Missionaries, and Native Consciousness in the Upper Amazon, 1767–1896 86
14. II A New Nation
15. Introduction 99
16. The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the “Miserable Indian Race” in the Late Nineteenth Century 103
17. Four Years among the Ecuadorians 117
18. Selection from Juan Montalvo (1832–1889) 121
19. Railway and Nation in Liberal Ecuador 126
20. Guayaquil and Coastal Ecuador during the Cacao Era 136
21. Mountaineering on the Equator: A Historical Perspective 148
22. III The Rise of the Popular
23. Introduction 155
24. Portrait of a People 159
25. You Are Not My President 163
26. The Wonderland 167
27. Patrón and Peon on an Andean Hacienda 169
28. The Man Who Was Kicked to Death 175
29. The Indian’s Cabin 182
30. “Heroic Pueblo of Guayaquil” 185
31. IV Global Currents
32. Introduction 189
33. Two Experiments in Education for Democracy 193
34. The Origins of the Ecuadorian Left 200
35. The Progressive Catholic Church and the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador 203
36. Man of Ashes 209
37. Men of the Rails and of the Sea 218
38. Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures: The Case of the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas 226
39. Julio Jaramillo and Music as Identity 237
40. The United Fruit Company’s Legacy in Ecuador 239
41. The Panama Hat Trail 250
42. Deforestation in Ecuador 257
43. Civilization and Barbarism 267
44. Deinstitutionalized Democracy 271
45. V Domination and Struggle
46. Nina Pacari, an Interview 277
47. Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Ecuador 284
48. The Galápagos: Environmental Pressures and Social Opportunities 297
49. Emerald Freedom: “With Pride in the Face of the Sun” 302
50. Suing ChevronTexaco 321
51. Arts of Amazonian and Andean Women 329
52. VI Cultures and Identities Redefined
53. Introduction 337
54. National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96) 341
55. Ecuadorian International Migration 350
56. Cities of Women 359
57. Traditional Foods of Ecuador 371
58. Globalization from Below and the Political Turn among Otavalo’s Merchant Artisans 377
59. Pancho Jaime 385
60. Big Angel, My Love 388
61. Nature and Humanity through Poetry 396
62. “Simple People” 403
63. The Writings of Iván Oñate 415
64. Suggestions for Further Reading 419
65. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 423
66. Index 427