Ecuador
(see also Ecuador: Indigenous Peoples & Movements & Ecuador: Amazon Region)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
Manta, Transforming Ecuador into another Cambodia, Another Colombia. Lawrence Reichard with Anthony Kolenic, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (5/27/04). Consequences of 1999 leasing of Eloy Alfaro Airport as "forward operating location" by US Southern Command.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Centro de Medios Independientes (IndyMedia Ecuador).
Resource Center of the Americas.
In the Library: Articles
Almeida, Mónica. "Phoenicians of the Pacific: Lebanese & other Middle Easterners in Ecuador," The Americas 53,1 (7/96):87-112.
Anon. "'Visión Mundial': the ILV's replacement?" IWGIA Newsletter 34 (7/83):56-67. On missionary activities of World Vision in relation to those of the Wycliffe Bible Translators.
__________. "Historical notes on World Vision in Ecuador," IWGIA Newsletter 37 (5/84):60-75.
__________. "Ecuador: African palm & ethnocide," IWGIA Newsletter 46 (7/86):55-67.
__________. "Ecuador: transnational oil companies, missionary deaths & Huaorani land rights," IWGIA Newsletter 51/52 (10-12/87):35-40.
Ashley, John M. "African palm oil: impacts in Ecuador's Amazon," Cultural Survival Quarterly 11,2 (1987):55-60.
Avery, William P. "Origins & consequences of the border dispute between Ecuador & Peru," Inter-American Economic Affairs 38,1 (1984):65-77.
Bacon, David. “Banana busters,” In These Times (8/19/02):4.
Bannowsky, Philip. "Ecuador: In the grip of the Anaconda," NACLA Report 35,1 (7-8/01):38-41. "Plan Colombia" overflows borders.
Beck, Scott H. & Kenneth J. Mijeski. "Indígena self-identity in Ecuador & the rejection of mestizaje," Latin American Research Review 35,1 (2000):119-38.
Becker, Marc. "Comunas & indigenous protests in Cayambe, Ecuador," The Americas 55,4 (4/99):531-60.
Bishop, J.P. "Development & transfer of technology for small farms in the Ecuadorian Amazonic region," in G. de las Salas (ed.) Agro-Forestry Systems in Latin America (Turrialba, 1979), pp. 145-50.
Buirt, Arthur L. & others. "Santo Domingo de los Colorados: a new pioneer zone in Ecuador," Economic Geography 36 (1960):221-30.
Casagrande, Joseph B. "Estrategias para sobrevivir: los indígenas de la sierra del Ecuador," América Indígena 36,1 (1-3/76):95-114.
Chiriboga Vega, Manuel. "Estado, agro y acumulación en el Ecuador: una perspectiva histórica," Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos 7,2 (1984):35-80.
Cooper, Marc. "Rain forest crude," Mother Jones 17,2 (3-4/92):39-50.
Crespi, Muriel. "Changing power relations: the rise of peasant unions on traditional Ecuadorian haciendas," Anthropological Quarterly 44 (1971):223-40.
Cueva, Agustín. "El Ecuador en los años treinta," in P. González Casanova (ed.) América Latina en los años treinta (México, 1977), pp. 214-38.
__________. "Ecuador: 1925-1975," in P. González Casanova (ed.) América Latina: Historia de medio siglo (México, 1977), pp. 291-326.
Curbelo, Nelsa & Yanín Espinoza. "Ecuador: good news in the Barrio," in P. McManus & G. Schlabach (eds.) Relentless Persistence (Philadelphia, 1991), pp. 198-210.
Deas, Malcolm. "Colombia & Ecuador, 1880-1930," in L. Bethell (ed.) Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 5 (London, 1986).
Field, Les. "The land issue in the Ecuadorian highlands," Cultural Survival Quarterly 14,4 (1990):17-20.
Fierro-Benítez, Rodrigo. "Biopatología andina y nutrición," América Indígena 34,3 (7-9/74):777-95.
Fitzgerald, Frank & Ana Rodríguez. "Guayasamin: artless power vs. powerful art," NACLA Report 23,2 (7/89):4-6. Interview with the famous painter.
Fresneda Sierra, Javier. “Redefinición de las relaciones familiares en el proceso migratorio ecuatoriano a España.” Migraciones Internacionales 1,1 (7-12/01):135-144. Analiza los aspectos de la situación actual: los flujos contemporáneos de trabajadores, y los orígenes políticos de la resistencia a la migración internacional.
Guerrero, Andrés. "The construction of a ventriloquist's image: Liberal discourse & the 'miserable Indian race' in late 19th-c. Ecuador," Journal of Latin American Studies 29 (10/97).
Korovin, Tanya. "Indigenous peasant struggles & the capitalist modernization of agriculture: Chimborazo, 1964-1991," Latin American Perspectives 24 (5/97):25-49.
__________. "Taming capitalism: the evolution of the indigenous peasant economy in Northern Ecuador," Latin American Research Review 32,3 (1997):89-110.
Latin American Perspectives, special issue on "Ecuador: Women & Popular Classes in Struggle" 24,4 (7/97).
Llovet, Ignacio D. "Capitalism social differentiation: the case of Ecuador's rural population," Latin American Perspectives 51 (fall 86):60-85.
Macdonald, Theodore Jr. "Anticipating colonos & cattle in Ecuador & Colombia," Cultural Survival Quarterly 10,2 (1986):33-36.
Marin, Peter. "Now & hereafter: Catholicism fails the people of Ecuador," Harper's (12/79):8-15.
Martz, John D. "The regionalist expression of populism: Guayaquil & the CFP, 1948-1960," Journal of Inter-American Studies & World Affairs 22,3 (1980):289-314.
__________. "Studying politics & the state in Ecuador," Latin American Research Review 32,2 (1997):170-79.
Meentzen, Kathe. "Resisting land grabbing in Ecuador," Cultural Survival Quarterly 10,1 (1986):30-32.
Milk, Richard L. "The growth & development of Catholic labor organizations in Ecuador," in J.A. Cole (ed.) Church & Society in Latin America (New Orleans, 1984), pp. 287-306.
Moreno Alvarez, J. "La Iglesia en el Ecuador: Riobamba (desde 1962)," in E. Dussel (ed.) Historia General de la Iglesia en Latinoamerica, vol. 8 (Salamanca, 198?), pp. 458-89.
Moser, Caroline, O.N. "Adjustment from below: low-income women, time & the triple role in Guayaquil, Ecuador," in S.A. Radcliffe & S. Westwood (eds.) "Viva": Women & Popular Protest in Latin America (London, 1993), pp. 173-96.
Muratorio, Blanca. "Protestantism & capitalism revisited in the rural highlands of Ecuador," Journal of Peasant Studies 8,1 (1980):37-60.
Phillips, Lynne P. "Tomasa Muñóz de León: from precarista to cooperativista," in W. Beezley & J. Ewell (eds.) The Human Tradition in Latin America: The 20th Century (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1987), pp. 181-94.
__________. "Women, development & the state in rural Ecuador," in C.D. Deere & M. León (eds.) Rural Women & State Policy (Boulder, 1987).
Pineo, Ronn F. "Misery & death in the Pearl of the Pacific: health care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925," Hispanic American Historical Review 70,4 (11/90):609-38.
Pomeroy, Cheryl. "The salt of
highland Ecuador: precious product of a female domain," Ethnohistory
35,2 (1988):131-60.
Press, Eyal. "Texaco on trial," Nation (5/21/99):11-16. Pollution
from oilfields in Amazon rainforest.
Redclift, Michael. "'The agrarian reform': song sung by members of the Peasants' Federation in Ecuador," in H. Johnson & H. Bernstein (eds.) Third World Lives of Struggle (London, 1982), pp. 43-44.
Saunders, J.V.D. "Man-land relations in Ecuador," Rural Sociology 26 (1961):57-69.
Vozza, Giuseppe W. "Ecuador: the crisis of rural cooperatives & the quest for alternatives," Cultural Survival Quarterly 11,1 (1987):38-40.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bamat, Tomás. ¿Salvación o dominación?: las sectas religiosas en el Ecuador (Quito, 1986). Catholic view of rapid advance of evangelical protestantism.
Basile, David G. The Quito Basin: Rural Land Use in the Ecuadorean Highlands (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 1968).
Brandi, John (ed.) Chimborazo: Life on the Haciendas of Highland Ecuador (Rooseveltown:?, 1976).
Brooks, Rhoda & Earle Brooks. The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador (NY, 1965).
Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. The "Nobles" of Cuenca: The Agrarian Elite of Southern Ecuador (NY, 1972).
Clark, A. Kim. The Redemptive Work: Railway & Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930 (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998).
Conaghan, Catherine M. Restructuring Domination. Industrialists & the State in Ecuador (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1988).
Cowan, Paul. The Making of an Un-American (NY, 1967). Peace Corps memoir.
Cueva, Agustín. The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador (London, 1982).
Díaz, Oswaldo. El negro y el indio en la sociedad ecuatoriana (Bogotá, 1978).
Donoso Pareja, Miguel (comp.) La violencia en Ecuador (México, 1973).
Goffin, Alvin M. The Rise of Protestant Evangelism in Ecuador, 1895-1990 (Gainesville: U. Florida, 1994).
Guerrero, Andrés. La semántica de la dominación: el concertaje de indios (Quito, 1991).
Handelman, Howard. Ecuadorian Agrarian Reform: The Politics of Limited Change (AUFS Field Report 49; Hanover NH, 1980).
Hurtado, Oswaldo. Political Power in Ecuador (Albuquerque: U. New Mexico, 1980).
Latin American Bureau. Ecuador: Fragile Democracy (London, 1988).
Milk, Richard L. Movimiento obrero ecuatoriano: el desafío de la interacción (Quito, 1997).
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hitman: How the US Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004). See for background to the assassination of Jaime Roldós.
Needler, Martin C. Anatomy of a Coup d'Etat: Ecuador 1963 (Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems, 1964). Military officers vs. the populist Velasco Ibarra.
Pineo, Ronn F. Social Work & Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life & Work in Guayaquil (Gainesville: U. Florida, 1996).
Proaño, Leonidas. Concientización, evangelización, política (Salamanca: Sígueme, 1974). Author, long-time Bishop of Riobamba, was a leading proponent of liberation theology.
__________. Monseñor Proaño: el profeta del pueblo. Selección de sus textos (Quito: Fundación Pueblo Indio del Ecuador, 1990).
Redclift, Michael. Agrarian Reform & Peasant Organization on the Ecuadorian Coast (London, 1978).
Roberts, Lois. Los libaneses en el Ecuador: una vida de éxitos (Quito, 1997).
Rubenstein, Steven. Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer on the Margins of History (Lincoln: U. Nebraska, 2002).
Schodt, David W. Ecuador: An Andean Enigma (Boulder, 1987).
Terán, J.; L. Proaño, E. Rubianes e I. Robalino. Iglesia y fe en América Latina: reflexiones desde el Ecuador (Quito: INEDES, 1979).
Thomsen, Moritz. Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (NY, 1969).
__________. The Farm on the River of Emeralds (NY, 1978).
Various Authors. Ecuador, Hoy (Bogotá, 1978). Excellent short articles on politics & economy in the 70's.
Velasco, Fernando. Reforma agraria y movimiento campesino indígena de la sierra (Quito, 1979).
Weismantel, Mary J. Food, Gender, & Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes (Philadelphia: Temple, 1988).
Whitten, Norman E. Jr. Class, Kinship & Power in an Ecuadorian Town: The Negroes of San Lorenzo (Stanford: Stanford U, 1965).
__________. Black Frontiersmen: A South American Case (NY, 1974).
__________. Cultural Transformations & Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1981).
In the Library: Fiction
Icaza, Jorge. Huasipungo (English trans. The Villagers; Carbondale: U. Southern Illinois, 19??).
__________. Hijos del viento (Huairapamushcas) (Barcelona, 1975).
__________. El Chulla Romero y Flores (México, 1988). Novel of mestizo struggles against corruption & government repression.
Vera, Pedro Jorge. El pueblo soy yo (Buenos Aires, 1976). Evokes the populist regime of Velasco Ibarra.
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Alegría de una vez" [2001], dir. Mateo Herrera, 75m. Teenage romance set in Quito.
"Behind Walls" [1999], dir. José Gustavo Ynéz Ramos, 33m. Women's lives in a Quito prison.
"Between Marx & a Naked Woman (Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda)" [1996], dir. Camilo Luzuriaga, 90m. From Latin American Video Archives. Narrator of book about Communist Party faction confesses, in confidential chat with Karl Marx, that he can't tell fact from fiction.
"Ratas, ratones y rateros" [1999], dir. Sebastián Cordero, 107m. Social contexts & consequences of juvenile delinquency.