Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy

by Selverston-Scher, Melina

• ISBN13: 9781574540901
• ISBN10: 1574540904
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-31
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Table of Contents

Foreword
Luis Macas
Original Spanish	i
English translation	xi
Preface, Methodology, and Acknowledgments	xxi
Map of Ecuador	xxvi
Introduction	1	(12)
Nationalism and Indigenous Politics in Latin America	13	(16)
Indigenous-State Relations in Ecuador: The Politics of Culture	29	(26)
The 1990 Indigenous Uprising in Ecuador: Politicized Ethnicity as Social Movement	55	(20)
The Politics of Identity Reconstruction	75	(26)
Local Indigenous Politics: Three Cases of Rural Ecuador	101	(22)
Conclusions	123	(6)
Appendix 1: Acronyms	129	(2)
Appendix 2: Chronology	131	(1)
Appendix 3: List of Formal Interviews	132	(3)
Appendix 4: CONAIE Demands to the Government, 1990 Uprising	135	(2)
References	137	(10)
Index	147