Title: Urban mountain beings : history, indigeneity, and geographies of time in Quito, Ecuador /
Authors: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. 1953-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Indians of South America Ecuador Quito Ethnic identity.; Indians of South America Urban residence Ecuador Quito.; Indians of South America Ecuador Quito Rites and ceremonies.; Cotocollao (Quito, Ecuador) Social conditions.; Quito (Ecuador) Civilization.
Abstract: "Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of Indigenous recognition strategies in postneoliberal times in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare engages with performative, artistic, and pedagogical activities linked to the natural and spiritual environments"--
Contents: Part I. Locations & histories -- Northern Andean landscapes of movement and history -- Andean urban indigeneity -- Cotocollao histories and the urban aftermath of agrarian reform -- Part II. Performance, gender, and indigenous pedagogies -- The Yumbada of Cotocollao and the dialectics of gendered power -- Cultural and historical recuperation in the hummingbird house -- Local indigenous histories in the global city.