Sowell, David. The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2001.
Citation Kofas, Jon V. “The IMF, the World Bank, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Ecuador, 1956-1966.” Latin American Perspectives 28, no. 5 (September 2001): 50-83.
Citation Wunder, Sven. The Economics of Deforestation: The Example of Ecuador. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Citation Kyle, David. Transnational Peasant: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Citation Bebbington, Anthony. “Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and Place Transformations in the Andes.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, no. 3 (2000): 495–520.
Citation Caillavet, Chantal. Etnias Del Norte: Etnohistoria e Historia de Ecuador. 1ra. ed. Quito: Abya Yala, 2000.
Imagine you have thirty hours of interviews, nine months of work, more than seven decades of oral history from a privileged witness to the rise of Peronism and the Argentine labor movement…and then you start reading postmodern theory (125). Was it all a waste of time, you ask? This is Daniel James’s dilemma after recording… Read More Doña María′s Story: Daniel James
Citation Becker, Marc. “Comunas and Indigenous Protest in Cayambe, Ecuador.” The Americas 55, no. 4 (1999): 531–59.
Citation Cebrián Abellán, Francisco. La organización del espacio en Ecuador. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 1999.
Citation Black, Chad T. The Making of an Indigenous Movement: Culture, Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Latin American Institute, 1999.
Citation Núñez, Jorge. Historias del País de Quito. 1. ed. Quito: Eskletra Editorial, 1999.
Citation Ponce, Pilar. Certezas Ante La Incertidumbre: Élite y Cabildo de Quito En El Siglo XVII. 1a ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1998.
Citation Johnson, Lyman L., and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Citation Hamilton, Sarah. The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Jeffrey Gould’s monograph, To Die in This Way (1998), looks at the dialectic relationship between indigenous identity and the formation of the nation-state in Nicaragua from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth. Gould challenges the “myth of mestizaje” that holds that, except for the Miskito coast, the Central American nation is an ethnically-homogeneous… Read More To Die in This Way: Jeffrey Gould
Citation Clark, A. Kim. The Redemptive Work: Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895–1930. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1998.
Rappaport, Joanne. The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Latin America Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Citation Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La Audiencia de Quito: Aspectos económicos y sociales (Siglos XVI – XVIII). Colección Pendoneros, Nr. 23. Quito: Ed. del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1998.
Citation Escandell Tur, Neus. Producción y Comercio de Tejidos Coloniales: Los Obrajes y Chorrillos Del Cusco, 1570-1820. Archivos de Historia Andina 23. Cusco, Perú: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de Las Casas,” 1997.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. “The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the ‘Miserable Indian Race’ in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 29, no. 3 (October 1997): 555-90.
Warren Dean’s With Broadax and Firebrand is a history of the destructive impact of human activity on the Atlantic forests of Brazil. Chronicling social attitudes towards nature and the impact of those attitudes on the forests from pre-Columbian times to the present, he highlights the ultimately unproductive exploitation of Brazilian natural resources, which left the… Read More With Broadax and Firebrand: Warren Dean
Citation Lavallé, Bernard. Quito y la crisis de la Alcabala (1580-1600). 2. ed. Biblioteca de historia ecuatoriana 16. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1997.
Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, Latin America Otherwise : Languages, Empires, Nations (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
Citation Borchart de Moreno, Christiana, and Segundo E. Moreno Yánez. Crónica indiana del Ecuador antiguo. Quito: Ed. Abya-Yala, 1997.
Karl Zimmerer’s Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes looks at agriculture systems and species biodiversity in the Peruvian Andes in the late twentieth century. Focusing on an indigenous community in Paucartambo region, near Cuzco, the author explores the divergent fortunes of different communities in this area as they adapted to changing… Read More Changing Fortunes: Karl Zimmerer
Citation Pineo, Ronn F. Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Citation Andrien, Kenneth J. The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Citation Burgos Guevara, Hugo. El Guamán, El Puma y El Amaru: Formación Estructural Del Gobierno Indígena En Ecuador. 1a. ed. Colección “Biblioteca Abya-Yala 29. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995.
Citation Newson, Linda A. Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Citation Van Aken, Mark. El Rey de La Noche : Juan José Flores y El Ecuador ; 1824-1864. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1995.
The role of violence and the importance of cultural identity in the struggles between indigenous communities and the nation-state are the subjects of Ana María Alonso’s monograph, Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s Northern Frontier (1995). This anthropological history of machismo in the culturally-mestizo Namiquipa community in Chihuahua looks at how violence,… Read More Thread of Blood: Ana María Alonso
Citation Minchom, Martin. The People of Quito, 1690-1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass. Dellplain Latin American Studies, no. 32. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.
Elinor Melville’s A Plague of Sheep (1994) examines the effects of sheep ranching on the environment in the Valle de Mezquital in colonial Mexico. Melville traces the processes that turned a wooded, well-irrigated landscape into desolate pasture lands. She weaves disease, territorial control, ungulate irruptions, and the collapse and consolidation of regional land tenancy into… Read More A Plague of Sheep: Elinor Melville
