Urban Mountain Beings - History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis in post-neoliberal times carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Fine-Dare examines how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies treating Native peoples as "out of place" in cities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

Part I: Locations & Histories
Chapter 1: Northern Andean Landscapes of Movement and History
Chapter 2: Andean Urban Indigeneity
Chapter 3: Cotocollao Histories and the Urban Aftermath of Agrarian Reform

Part II: Performance, Gender, and Indigenous Pedagogies
Chapter 4: The Yumbada of Cotocollao and the Dialectics of Gendered Power
Chapter 5: Cultural and Historical Recuperation in the Hummingbird House
Chapter 6: Local Indigenous Histories in the Global City

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Kathleen S. Fine-Dare is professor emeritus of anthropology and gender & women's studies at Fort Lewis College.

Summary

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of Indigenous recognition strategies in post-neoliberal times in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare engages with performative, artistic, and pedagogical activities linked to the natural and spiritual environments.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen S Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Fine-Dare Kathleen S.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498575935
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7593-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life; Culture, Humanity, and Urban L
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Gender studies, gender groups