{"product_id":"histories-of-the-present-9780252036033","title":"Histories of the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA unique examination of ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavour focused on indigenous and Afro-descended Ecuadorian people\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The length and breadth of the Whittens' fieldwork in Ecuador adds a level of depth and insight that is unparalleled in Latin American studies. Their way of integrating earlier and more recent theories allows readers to understand how the contemporary concern for ethnogenesis, interculturality, and alternative modernities was anticipated several decades ago in works that still speak to us today in relevant terms.\"--Jonathan D. Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eMade-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book provides a fertile ground for thinking about the contributions of indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples to transformative politics in Ecuador, and it is one that is sure to yield fruitful insights well into the future.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the Whittens' hands, culture is deeply relational. They develop a vocabulary of interculturality, alternative modernity, and emergent culture to convey how the transformative capacity of people operates in their power over signs.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book historicizes ethnography in a unique, witness-participant way, bringing margins to center but also showing how indigenous and African-descended Ecuadorians have 'taken over' the country's history-in-the-making.\"--Kris Lane, author of \u003ci\u003eQuito 1599: City and Colony in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: To Remake the World   1\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   23\u003cbr\u003e 1. colonial Mentality in Making the World   25\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   43\u003cbr\u003e 2. Indigenous Constructions of \"Blackness\"   45\u003cbr\u003e Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Rachel Corr\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   65\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Topology of \u003ci\u003eEl Mestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e   67\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   91\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Ecuadorian Indigenous Uprising of 1990   93\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   115\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ecuador in the New Millennium   117\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   141\u003cbr\u003e 6. Indigenous Ethnographers Portray Their World   143\u003cbr\u003e Dorothea Scott Whitten\u003cbr\u003e Prelude   163\u003cbr\u003e 7. Indigenous Modernity   165\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Ethnography and Theory in Cultural Life   187\u003cbr\u003e Notes   203\u003cbr\u003e References   211\u003cbr\u003e Index   243","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036819325271,"sku":"9780252036033","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/histories-of-the-present-9780252036033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}