Political anthropology in Ecuador
Subtitle: perspectives from indigenous cultures
By: Jeffrey Ehrenreich, editor.
Contributors: Ehrenreich, Jeffrey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Society for Latin American Anthropology; Center for the Caribbean and Latin America, State University of New York at Albany
Published: 1985
Place of publication: [Albany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Ecuador.
Other titles: Political anthropology of Ecuador.
Notes: On cover: Political anthropology of Ecuador.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The role of women in peasant uprisings in the Ecuadorian highlands / Louisa Stark; title: Isolation, retreat and secrecy : dissembling behavior among the Coaiquer Indians of Ecuador / Jeffrey Ehrenreich; title: The Lowland Quichua as "tribe" / John E. Hudelson; title: The fury of Andrés Arévalo : disease bundles of a colonial Andean shaman / Frank Salomon; title: The politics of curing among the Coaiquer Indians / Judith Kempf; title: Power and authority in Siona political process : the rise and demise of the shaman / E. Jean Langdon; title: "To get ahead" : the entrepreneurial ethic and political behavior among commercial weavers in Otavalo / Leo R. Chavez; title: Ideological traditionalism and pragmatic flexibility in the internal politics of an Otavalo Indian community / Barbara Butler; title: Achuara trade : counterpoise and complement to war / Pita Kelekna.