Publication Cover
Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 16, 2009 - Issue 5
1,121
Views
13
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Indigenous bodies, indigenous minds? Towards an understanding of indigeneity in the Ecuadorian Amazon

¿Cuerpos indígenas, mentes indígenas? Hacia la comprensión de la indigenidad en el Amazonas ecuatoriano

Pages 535-551 | Published online: 08 Sep 2009

References

  • Aitken , Stuart . 2001 . Geographies of young people: The morally contested spaces of identity , New York : Routledge .
  • Alcalde , Cristina . 2007 . Going home: A feminist anthropologist's reflections on dilemmas of power and positionality in the field . Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism , 7 : 143 – 62 .
  • Anaya , James . 1996 . Indigenous peoples in international law , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Anderson , Benedict . 1991 . Imagined communities , London : Verso .
  • Asad , Talal . 2003 . Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press .
  • Borman , Randy . 1996 . Survival in a hostile world: culture change and missionary influence among the Cofán people of Ecuador, 1954–1994 . Missiology: An International Review , 24 : 185 – 200 .
  • Bourque , Susan and Warren , Karen . 1981 . Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and social change in two Peruvian towns , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press .
  • Brysk , Allison . 2000 . From tribal village to global village: Indian rights and international relations in Latin America , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press .
  • Butler , Judith . 1993 . Bodies that matter , London : Routledge .
  • Butler , Judith . 2007 . Excitable speech: A politics of the performative , New York : Routledge .
  • Callard , Felicity . 1998 . The body in theory . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 16 : 387 – 400 .
  • Cannesa , Andrew . 2005 . “ Introduction: Making the nation on the margins ” . In natives making nation: gender, indigeneity, and the state in the Andes , Edited by: Canessa , Andrew . 3 – 31 . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press .
  • Colchester , Michael . 2002 . Indigenous rights and the collective subject . Anthropology Today , 18 : 1 – 3 .
  • Conklin , Beth A. 2003 . Speaking truth to power . Anthropology News ,
  • de la Cadena , Marisol . 1992 . Las Mujeres son Más Indias: Etnicidad y Género en una Comunidad del Cuzco . Revista Isis Internacional, Ediciones de las Mujeres , 16
  • de la Cadena , Marisol . 2000 . Indigenous mestizos: The politics of race and culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • de la Cadena , Marisol . 2001 . Reconstructing race: Racism, culture and mestizaje in Latin America . NACLA , 34 : 16 – 23 .
  • de la Cadena , Marisol . 2005 . Are Mestizos hybrids? The conceptual politics of Andean identities . Journal of Latin American Studies , 37 : 259 – 84 .
  • De la Cadena , Marisol and Starn , Orin . 2005 . “ Introduction ” . In Indigenous experience today , Edited by: de la Cadena , Marisol and Starn , Orin . 1 – 31 . Oxford : Berg .
  • De la Torre , Carlos . 1999 . Everyday forms of racism in contemporary Ecuador: The experiences of middle class Indians . Ethnic and Racial Studies , 22 : 92 – 112 .
  • Deloria , Vine Jr . 1969 . Custer died for your sins: An Indian manifesto , New York : Macmillan .
  • Du Bois , William Edward Burghardt . 1969 . Darkwater: Voices from within the veil , New York : Schocken Books .
  • Espinosa , María Fernanda . 1997 . Indigenous women on stage: Retracing the Beijing conference from ‘below’ . Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies , 2 : 237 – 55 .
  • Fanon , Frantz . [1952] 1967 . Black skin, white masks , London : Pluto Press .
  • Field, Les. 2003. Who are ‘we’ and is that dangerous to ‘them’? Anthropology News 44, no. 8: 5–6
  • Garcés, Alicia. 2006. Relaciones de género en la Amazonia ecuatoriana: Estudios de caso en comunidades indígenas Achuar, Shuar y Kichua. Quito: Ediciones ABYA-YALA
  • Gerlach , Allen . 2003 . Indians, oil, and politics: A recent history of Ecuador , Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources .
  • Graham , Laura . 2002 . “ How should an Indian speak? Amazonian Indians and the symbolic politics of language in the global public sphere ” . In Indigenous movements, self-representations, and the State in Latin America , Edited by: Warren , Karen and Jackson , Jean . 181 – 228 . Austin : University of Texas Press .
  • Gupta , Akhil . 1998 . Postcolonial developments: Agriculture in the making of modern India , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • Hale , Charles . 2002 . Does multiculturalism menace? Governance, cultural rights and the politics of identity in Guatemala . Journal of Latin American Studies , 43 : 485 – 524 .
  • Hall , Stuart . 1994 . “ Cultural identity and diaspora ” . In Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory , Edited by: Williams , P. and Chrisman , L. 392 – 403 . New York : Columbia University Press .
  • Hall , Stuart . 1995 . Negotiating Caribbean identities . New Left Review , 209 : 3 – 14 .
  • hooks , bell . 1992 . Black looks , Boston : South End Press .
  • Jackson , Jean . 1995 . Culture, genuine and spurious: the politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia . American Ethnologist , 22 : 3 – 27 .
  • Katz , Cindi . 2004 . Growing up global: Economic restructuring and children's everyday lives , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press .
  • Kuper , A. 2003 . The return of the native . Current Anthropology , 44 : 389 – 402 .
  • Larson , Brooke . 2005 . “ Capturing Indian bodies, hearths, and minds: The gendered politics of rural school reform in Bolivia ” . In Natives making nation , Edited by: Cannesa , Andrew . 32 – 59 . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press .
  • Laurie , Nina , Andolina , Robert and Radcliffe , Sarah . 2003 . Indigenous professionalization: Transnational social reproduction in the Andes . Antipode , 35 : 463 – 91 .
  • Li , Tania . 2000 . Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia: Resource politics and the 'tribal slot' . Comparative Studies in Society and History , 42 : 149 – 79 .
  • Lilliott , Elizabeth Ann . 2003 . “ Intercultural Indians, multicultural Mestizas developing gender and identity in neoliberal Ecuador ” . PhD diss., Department of Anthropology. Austin: University of Texas at Austin
  • Mahmood , Saba . 2005 . Politics of piety: The Islamic revival and the feminist subject , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • Mallon , Florencia . 1996 . Constructing mestizaje in Latin America: Authenticity, marginality, and gender in the claiming of ethnic identities . Journal of Latin American Anthropology , 2 : 178 – 81 .
  • McCall , Leslie . 2005 . The complexity of intersectionality . Signs: Journal of women in culture and society , 30 : 1771 – 800 .
  • Moss , Pamela . 2005 . “ A bodily notion of research: Power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology ” . In A companion to feminist geography , Edited by: Nelson , Lise and Seager , Joni . 41 – 59 . Oxford : Blackwell .
  • Muratorio , Blanca . 1991 . The life and times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and history in the Upper Amazon , New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press .
  • Muratorio , Blanca . 1994 . Imágenes e Imagineros: Representaciones de los Indígenas Ecuatorianos, Siglos XIX y XX , Quito : FLACSO .
  • Muratorio , Blanca . 1998 . Indigenous women's identities and the politics of cultural reproduction in the Ecuadorian Amazon . American Anthropologist , 100 : 409 – 20 .
  • Muratorio , Blanca . 2005 . Historia de Vida de una Mujer Amazónica: Intersección de Autobiografía, Etnografía e Historia . Iconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales , 22 : 1 – 15 .
  • Nast , Heidi . 1998 . “ The body as ‘place’: Reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria ” . In Places through the body , Edited by: Nast , Heidi and Pile , Steve . 93 – 116 . London : Routledge .
  • Nast , Heidi and Pile , Steve . 1998 . “ Introduction: Making Places Bodies ” . In Places through the body , Edited by: Nast , Heidi and Pile , Steve . 1 – 20 . London : Routledge .
  • Nelson , Diane . 1999 . A finger in the wound: Body politics in Quincenntenial Guatemala , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Nelson , Diane . 2001 . Indian giver or Nobel savage: Duping, assumptions of identity and other double entendres in Rigoberta Menchú tum's stoll/en past . American Ethnologist , 28 ( 2 ) : 303 – 31 .
  • Neuman , S. 1984 . “ Los Quijos y Cofanes del nororiente ecuatoriano: apuntes históricos ” . In Cuadernos de Investigación de Antropología , Vol. 2 , 57 – 78 . Quito : PUCE .
  • Niezen , Ron . 2003 . The origins of indigenism: Human rights and the politics of identity , San Diego : University of California Press .
  • Orlove , Benjamin . 1998 . Down to earth: Race and substance in the Andes . Bulletin of Latin American Research , 17 : 207 – 22 .
  • Parr , Hester . 2001 . Feeling, reading, and making bodies in space . The Geographical Review , 91 : 158 – 67 .
  • Piaguaje , Celestino . 1989 . Ëcorasa: Autobiografía de un Secoya , Lago Agrio : CICAME .
  • Pile , Steve . 2002 . “ The troubled spaces of Frantz Fanon ” . In Thinking space , Edited by: Crang , M. and Thrift , N. 260 – 78 . London : Routledge .
  • Postero , Nancy . 2007 . Now we are citizens: Indigenous politics in postmulticultural Bolivia , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press .
  • Povinelli , Elizabeth . 2002 . The cunning of recognition: Indigenous alterities and the making of Australian multiculturalism , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • Radcliffe , Sarah and Westwood , Sallie . 1996 . Remaking the nation: Place, identity and politics in Latin America , London : Routledge .
  • Radcliffe , Sarah . 1999 . “ Entangling resistance, ethnicity, gender and nation ” . In Entanglements of power: Geographies of domination and resistance , Edited by: Sharp , Joan . 213 – 25 . London : Routledge .
  • Radcliffe , Sarah , Laurie , Nina and Andolina , Robert . 2004 . The transnationalization of gender and re-imagining Andean indigenous development . Signs: Journal of women in culture and society , 29 : 387 – 416 .
  • Rappaport , Joanne . 2005 . Intercultural utopias , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • Rival , Laura . 1997 . Modernity and the politics of identity in an Amazonian society . Bulletin of Latin American Research , 16 : 137 – 51 .
  • Rivera Cusicanqui , Silvia . 1996 . Ser mujer indígena, chola, birlocha en la Bolivia postcolonial de los años 90 , La Paz : Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano .
  • Robinson , Scott . 1996 . Hacia una nueva comprensión del shamanismo cofán , Quito : Abya Yala .
  • Rosengren , D. 2002 . Commentary. In defining oneself, and being defined as, indigenous . Anthropology Today , 18 : 23 – 5 .
  • Rudel , Thomas , Bates , Dian and Golbeck , Susan . 2006 . How do poor, remote rural places get child care centers? Patriarchy, Out-migration, and political opportunities in the Ecuadorian Amazon . Human Organization , 65 ( 1 ) : 1 – 7 .
  • Said , Ed. 1979 . Orientalism , New York : Vintage Books .
  • Sawyer , Suzana . 2004 . Crude chronicles: Indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • Scott , James C. 1990 . Domination and the arts of resistance , New Haven, CT : Yale University Press .
  • Spivak , Gayatri . [1985] 1996 . “ Subaltern studies: Deconstructing historiography ” . In Selected works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Edited by: Landry , D. and Maclean , G. 203 – 35 . New York : Routledge .
  • Staeheli , Lynn and Lawson , Victoria . 1994 . A discussion of ‘women in the field’: The politics of feminist fieldwork . The Professional Geographer , 46 : 96 – 102 .
  • Staunæs , Dorthe . 2003 . Where have all the subjects gone? Bringing together the concepts of intersectionality and subjectification . NORA , 11 : 101 – 10 .
  • Stoler , Ann L. 1995 . Race and the education of desire: Foucault's history of sexuality and the colonial order of things , Durham, NC : Duke University Press .
  • Treakle , K. 1998 . “ Ecuador: Structural adjustment and indigenous and environmentalist resistance ” . In The struggle for accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and grassroots movements , Edited by: Fox , J. and Brown , D. 219 – 64 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Valentine , Gill . 2007 . Theorizing and researching intersectionality: A challenge for feminist geography . The Professional Geographer , 59 : 10 – 21 .
  • Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela. 2003. Representations of indigenousness. Anthropology News, May
  • Vickers , William . 1989 . Los sionas y secoyas: su adaptación al ambiente Amazónico , Quito : Abya Yala .
  • Vickers , William . 2003 . “ The modern political transformation of the Secoya ” . In Millenial Ecuador: Critical essays on cultural transformations and social dynamics , Edited by: Whitten , N.E. 46 – 74 . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press .
  • Van Vleet , Krista . 2005 . “ Dancing on the borderlands: Girls (re)fashioning national belonging in the Andes ” . In Natives making nation , Edited by: Canessa , Andrew . 107 – 29 . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press .
  • Wade , Peter . 2002 . Race, nature, and culture , London : Pluto Press .
  • Weismantel , Mary . 2001 . Cholas and pishtacos: Stories of race and sex in the Andes , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Weismantel , Mary . 2005 . “ Afterword: Andean identities: Multiplicities, socialities, materialities ” . In Natives making nation , Edited by: Cannesa , Andrew . 181 – 94 . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.