Citation Pallares, Amalia. From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Citation Costales Samaniego, Alfredo, and Dolores Costales Peñaherrera. Huambracuna: La Epopeya de Yahuarcocha. 1era. ed. Quito: Abya Yala : IEAG, 2002.
Citation Kyle, David. Transnational Peasant: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Citation Becker, Marc. “Comunas and Indigenous Protest in Cayambe, Ecuador.” The Americas 55, no. 4 (1999): 531–59.
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.
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 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.
Citation Thurner, Mark. From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. Latin America Otherwise : Languages, Empires, Nations. Durham, N.C. ; London: 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 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.
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
Citation Zamosc, Leon. “Agrarian Protest and the Indian Movement in the Ecuadorian Highlands.” Latin American Reserarch Review 29, no. 3 (1994): 37-68.
Citation Moreno Yáñez, Segundo, and José Figueroa. El Levantamiento Indígena Del Inti Raymi de 1990. Quito, Ecuador: Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales : Editorial ABYA-YALA, 1992.
Bray, Tamara L. “Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui.” World Archaeology 24, no. 2 (October 1992): 218–33. Tamara Bray’s “Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui” documents the presence of local and Incan influences in the Guayllabamba basin, an area that represented the Incas’… Read More Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui: Bray
Citation Thorp, Rosemary, ed. Las Crisis En El Ecuador: Los Treinta y Ochenta. Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, v. 33. Quito, Ecuador: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1991.
Suzanne Alchon: Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador (1991) explores the relationship between epidemic diseases and indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Alchon argues that appreciating the role of epidemics in everything from food security to politics is critical to understanding changes in regional history in… Read More Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador: Suzanne Alchon
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. La Semántica de La Dominación: El Concertaje de Indios. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Libri Mundi, E. Grosse-Luemern, 1991.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. De la economía a las mentalidades (Cambio social y conflicto agragrio en el Ecuador). Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1991.
Citation Crain, Mary M. “Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorean Andes: Women’s Narratives of Death and Devil Possession.” American Ethnologist 18, no. 1 (1991): 67–89.
Citation Hess, Carmen G. “‘Moving up-Moving down’: Agro-Pastoral Land-Use Patterns in the Ecuadorian Paramos.” Mountain Research and Development 10, no. 4 (1990): 333–42.
Citation Preston, David A. “From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador.” The Geographical Journal 156, no. 1 (1990): 31–38.
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Ecuador: Luces y sombas del liberalism. Quito: El Duende, 1989.
Citation Espinoza Soriano, Waldemar. Los Cayambes y Carangues: Siglos XV-XVI : El Testimonio de La Etnohistoria. 2 vols. Colección Curiñán. Quito: Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, 1988.
Citation Ayala Mora, Enrique. El Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano en la historia. Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, 1988.
Citation Ramón Valarezo, Galo. La resistencia andina: Cayambe 1.500-1.800. Cuaderno de Discusión Popular. Quito: Centro Andino de Accion Popular, 1987.
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s Oppressed but Not Defeated, on the struggles of Aymara and Quechua peasants in the highlands and western valleys of the Bolivian Andes, focuses on the creation of peasant unions after the 1952 revolution by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. Her book is a concise collection of essays written in collaboration with Bolivian peasant… Read More Oppressed But Not Defeated: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. “Jesus Gualavisí y las luchas indígenas en el Ecuador.” In Los comunistas en la historia nacional, ed. Domingo paredes, 155-88. Guayaquil: Editorial Claridad S.A., 1987.
Frank Salomon’s Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas (1985) is still the most complete ethnohistory of the Ecuadorian Andes in English. Making extensive use of indigenous legal documents from the early colonial period, Salomon focuses on what is today the city of Quito and the Los Chillos valley, as well as… Read More Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: Frank Salomon
Magnus Mörner’s The Andean Past: Land, Societies, and Conflicts (1985) is a wide-ranging survey of Andean history since conquest, focusing on classic political, social, and economic themes. In his discussion of Andean rural history, Mörner says historians should view the development of haciendas in terms of their wider commercial networks and argues that international export… Read More The Andean Past: Magnus Mörner
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