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Ancestral Knowledges and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Ecuador
In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of historically subalternised knowledges by the state during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as of the strive for epistemic justice by peoples and nationalities' organisations in the context of struggles for social change, decolonisation, and self-determination. On the basis of rich empirical material, the analysis traces state discourses and practices and mechanisms to govern 'ancestral knowledges' in the framework of the govern...
Clay and Bones
Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI. Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation—sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull—that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just...
Terroristic Activity
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Transforming Ethnicity
This book explores how global migration transforms local dynamics in the communal life of indigenous peoples in southern Ecuador. At its heart, the focus is on Cañar, a region marked by more than seven decades of migratory flows to the United States. Cañar features one of the areas of greatest human mobility in the entire Andean Region. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews and dialogue-based workshops with indigenous youths, the author shows how migratory processes and forms of self-representation have challenged the idea that ethnic identity is tied to fixed cultural patterns. He further shows how youths’ transnational experiences reconfigure generational differences within indigenous communities. In analyzing how transnational life, adultcentrism, gender power dynamics, and institutional discourses intersect in the production of indigenous youths’ subjectivities, this book provides an innovative approach to the studies of indigenous peoples and migration.
Death Row, U.S.A.
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Antropologías hechas en Ecuador
Al igual que en otros países, en Ecuador la antropología no es solo una disciplina, son varias genealogías que obedecen a temas diversos con enfoques interdisciplinarios y que cambian de acuerdo al contexto social, económico y político; pero a diferencia de la región, registra pocas escuelas de antropología y centros de formación de profesionales en el área. Esta recopilación de textos muestra la diversidad y las múltiples facetas de las antropologías ecuatorianas. La antropología ecuatoriana no se agota en estas historiografías y resalta aquellas genealogías del pensamiento ecuatoriano, nutrido por reflexiones desde las escuelas clásicas de la antropología, que dialogan fuertemente con el contexto nacional y que, particularmente, tienen la capacidad de recrearse a la luz de las necesidades reales de la gente con quienes se co-construye el conocimiento.
Recognizing Indigenous Languages
"What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been one of the most prominent examples of Indigenous education in Central and South America. Since its establishment in 1988, members of Ecuador's pueblos and nationalities have worked from state institutions to coordinate a second national school system that includes the teaching of Indigenous languages. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research in Ecuador's Ministry of Education, at international and national confere...
