One State, Many Nations : Indigenous Rights Struggles in Ecuador

Maximilian Viatori

ISBN 10: 1934691178 / ISBN 13: 9781934691175

Published by SAR Press Jul 2010, 2010

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Neuware - The Zápara are one of the smallest Indigenous nationalities in Ecuador, with roughly two hundred members, most of whom live along the Conambo and Pindoyacu rivers in Pastaza province. This study traces the Zápara nationality's process of self-organisation and emergence within Ecuador's Indigenous movement from 1998 to 2008, to explore the role that multiculturalism has played in local Indigenous politics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One State, Many Nations : Indigenous Rights Struggles in Ecuador
• Publisher: SAR Press Jul 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934691178
• ISBN 13: 9781934691175
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 152H x 9D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 269 grams

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Synopsis

This book traces the process of self-organization and emergence within Ecuador's Indigenous movement from 1998 to 2008 for the Zápara nationality, one of the smallest Indigenous groups in Ecuador, to explore the complex role that multiculturalism has played in local identity politics.

Review

An excellent text for courses on globalization and Indigeneity, language disappearance and revitalization, or Indigenous movements in the Americas... --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2012

In an ethnography that is both detailed and succinct, Viatori's One State, Many Nations: Indigenous rights Struggles in Ecuador presents a textbook case of contemporary indigenous activism. --Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Nov. 2012

This work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of indigenous activism and the challenges that smaller indigenous groups face in attempting to achieve important goals....This book will be of interest not only to Ecuadorianists but also to scholars interested in indigenous activism more generally, and because it is short and readable it would be an excellent book for course adoption. Viatori has set a fine precent for further studies of this nature. --Erin E. O'Connor, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 69:3, January 2013

This work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of indigenous activism and the challenges that smaller indigenous groups face in attempting to achieve important goals....This book will be of interest not only to Ecuadorianists but also to scholars interested in indigenous activism more generally, and because it is short and readable it would be an excellent book for course adoption. Viatori has set a fine precent for further studies of this nature. --Erin E. O'Connor, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 69:3, January 2013

The significant strengths of Viatori's study of indigenous activism coupled with the activism by powerful and well-educated others on behalf of this indigenous emergent ethnicity is the detailed description of microlevel interpersonal cooperation and competition, collaboration and opposition. --Norman E. Whitten, Jr. American Anthropologist, vol. 115, no. 4, Dec. 2013