Canova, Paola. Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.… Read More Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco: Canova
Geographic landmarks and cultural sites around Guachalá, including Pambamarca complex and territory southeast of the Río Pisque. … Read More Geographic landmarks and cultural sites at Guachalá: Map
Paige, Jeffery M. Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020.… Read More Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia: Paige
Martín de Murúa was a Basque Mercedarian friar who wrote the Historia General del Piru (c.1580-1616), an illustrated history of what are today the South American nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. … Read More Plotting Pachakuti: Incan Conquest Sites in the Galvin Murúa
Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.… Read More Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito: Fine-Dare
Citation Connell, Samuel V., Amber Anderson, Chad Gifford, and Ana Lucía González. “Inka Militarism at the Pambamarca Complex in Northern Ecuador.” Latin American Antiquity 30, no. 1 (March 2019): 177–97.
Huarcaya, Sergio Miguel. “Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 50, no. 02 (May 2018): 411–40.… Read More Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador: Huarcaya
Lewis, Tammy L. Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, 2017.… Read More Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Lewis
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo E. Simbolismo y ritual en las sublevaciones indígenas. Primera edición. Biblioteca de historia, volumen 47. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2017.
Echeverría-Almeida and Athens underwater survey of the Laguna Yahuarcocha (Lake of Blood) builds on earlier subaquatic research performed in the lake in the early 2000s.… Read More Investigación Subacuática en las Lagunas de Yahuarcocha: Echeverría and Athens
Citation Espinosa, Carlos R. El Inca barroco: política y estética en la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1630-1680. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2015.
Citation D’Amico, Linda. Etnicidad y globalización: las otavaleñas en casa y en el mundo. Atrio. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador : Abya-Yala, 2014.
Citation Olson, Christa J. Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.
Citation Bray, Tamara L., and José Echeverría Almeida. “The Late Imperial Site Of Inca-Caranqui, Northern Highland Ecuador: At The End Of Empire.” Ñawpa Pacha, Journal of Andean Archaeology 34, no. 2 (2014): 177–99.
Charles Walker left few stones unturned in The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, an impressive analysis of Spain’s largest colonial rebellion. This essay briefly examines two original arguments and two secondary claims made by Walker that help shape our understanding of an uprising that ultimately reached levels of total violence rarely seen in human history. Walker’s “seemingly… Read More The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Charles Walker
A collection of essays on the construction and emergence of ethnic identities in the Ecuadorian Andes, edited by Marc Becker. The authors of the volume examine Afro-Ecuadorians and indigenous communities through the lens of politics, culture, religion, gender, and the environment to better understand the array of social problems facing the country. French sociologist Manuela… Read More Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century: Marc Becker
Citation Becker, Marc. “The Limits of ‘Indigenismo’ in Ecuador.” Latin American Perspectives 39, no. 5 (2012): 45–62.
Citation Clark, A. Kim. Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Citation Cervone, Emma. Long Live Atahualpa : Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Citation Becker, Marc. “In Search of ‘Tinterillos.’” Latin American Research Review 47, no. 1 (2012): 95–114.
Citation Romero, Karolina. El Cine de Los Otros: La Representación de “Lo Indígena” En El Cine Documental Ecuatoriano. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2011.
Citation León Carrera, Concepción. Eugenio Espejo: Ilustración y Visión Del Indio: Trabajo Realizado En Francia Con Ocasión Del Bicentenario de Espejo (1995). 1era. ed. Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, 2011.
El Ecuador en la Historia, by Jorge Nunez Sanchez, is a survey of national history from the pre-Columbian period to the modern nation-state, focusing more heavily on the twentieth century. The book sheds light on early indigenous protests of colonial rule, labor organization, and liberal reforms in the early twentieth century, as well as the… Read More El Ecuador en la Historia: Jorge Nunez
Citation Becker, Marc. “‘Gonzalo Oleas, Defensor’: Cultural Intermediation in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 43, no. 2 (2011): 237–65.
Citation Becker, Marc. Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
Citation Capello, Ernesto. City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
Citation Black, Chad T. The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Citation Corr, Rachel. Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes. First Peoples. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010.
Citation Powers, Karen Vieira. Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito. Albuquerque: University Of New Mexico, 2009.
Enrique Mayer’s Ugly Stories of Peruvian Agrarian Reform, a “people-oriented kind of oral history,” provides a memory study of the 1969 land reforms enacted by Peruvian President Juan Velasco Alvarado. Written from the perspective of historical stakeholders and incorporating Mayer’s lifelong participation in the reforms as an academic observer, he weaves a series of testimonies… Read More Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform: Enrique Mayer
Citation Lyall, Angus. “¿Para qué sirve la memoria? : memoria, poder y resistencia en una zona florícola en el norte de Ecuador,” July 2009.
Citation Becker, Marc, and Silvia Tutillo. Historia Agraria y Social de Cayambe. Quito: Abya-Yala, 2009.
Ogburn, Dennis, Samuel Connell, and Chad Gifford. “Provisioning of the Inka Army in Wartime: Obsidian Procurement in Pambamarca, Ecuador.” Journal of Archaeological Science 36, no. 3 (March 1, 2009): 740–51. Dennis Ogburn, Samuel Connell, and Chad Gifford look at sources of obsidian found at the Pambamarca fortress complex to the north and east of Quito,… Read More Provisioning of the Inka Army in Wartime: Obsidian Procurement in Pambamarca, Ecuador: Ogburn et al.
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