Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics

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Summary: A welcome collection
Review: This welcome collection brings together research by anthropologists, historians, and indigenouos scholars who offer a comprehensive overview of the social and political dynamics of contemporary Ecuador. Contributors document practices of contemporary Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples as they struggle to address pressing issues in their personal lives. The editor puts papers in context by providing a preface, a thorough introduction, and an epilogue updating the Ecuadorian political situation to 2003. Whitten also provides a glossary and a useful appendix containing background information on Ecuador. Chapters by Corr, Vickers, Uzendoski, and Guss are outstanding. Recommended. Stephen D. Glazier, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebrasska-Lincoln.