Blanca Muratorio

The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso

Culture and History in the Upper Amazon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Blanca Muratorio introduces us to Rucuyaya Alonso, a Quichua elder from the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon. Grandfather Alonso's story spans a century, as his narrative incoporates oral tradition learned from both his father and grandfather. The book alternates between chapters of Alonso's life history, and chapters analyzing the history of the world around him--the domination of the missionaries and the state, the white settlers' expropriation of land, the debt-peonage system during the rubber boom, the world-wide crisis of the 1930s, and the booms and busts of the iternational oil market.Muratorio explains the larger social, economic, and ideological bases of white domination over native peoples in Amazonia. Her analysis of Quichua culture shows how through everyday practices of accommodation and resistance, and through expressions of humor, irony, and anger, the Quichua Indians were able to protect their cultural identity, their ethnic dignity, and their symbolic systems against the hegemonic forces of a white-dominated world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780813516851
• ISBN-10: 0813516854
• Artikelnr.: 22422753

Autorenporträt

BIANCA MURATORIO is an associate professor in the department of anthropology and sociology at the University of British Columbia. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Forest Travelers
2. Ethnicity, Language, Culture
3. Family and Youth
4. The Forest and the River
5. The State, Missionaries, and Native Consciousness, 1767-1896
6. Christianity and the Missions
7. Liberalism and Rubber: The Early Twentieth Century in the Oriente
8. The Days of the Varas, the Apu, and the Patrons
9. The Company and the Auca
10. Gold, Oil, and Cattle: The Twentieth Century in Tena-Archidona
11. My Friends the Yachaj
12. Dreams and Death
Reflections
14. The Cultural Bases of Resistance
Epilogue
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Glossary
References
Index