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Book Ecuadorean Voice

Download or read book Ecuadorean Voice written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeds in the Wind

Download or read book Seeds in the Wind written by Frank S. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voices from the Center of the World

Download or read book Voices from the Center of the World written by Margaret Randall and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In VOICES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, Randall has gathered 25 poets born in Ecuador between 1926 and 1993. These include some cultural heroes of the 20th century, and many of the voices that define Peruvian political dissent. It also focuses on a new generations of poets, especially women and indigenous poets born after 1950. Especially exciting are poets writing in the Kichwa language, Ariruma Kowii (1961) and Lucila Lema (1974) who serve as custodians of indigenous knowledge and imaginations, at once political, historical, and ancestral. Margaret Randall's selection and translations are alert to the edges and cadences of an individual idiom, to the plural alignments with the long view of history, and to consciousness of the country's literary dynamism. Often overshadowed by the literatures of Colombia, Argentina and Chile, VOICES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD brings the literature of Peru -- fully engaged in contemporary issues like human rights and climate change, yet infused with a wisdom drawn from its ancient mountain cultures.

Book The Ecuador Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carlos de la Torre
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-16
  • ISBN : 0822390116
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Ecuador Reader written by Carlos de la Torre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader. Spanning the years before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation’s integration into the world economy, and its tumultuous twentieth century. Interspersed among forty-eight written selections are more than three dozen images. The voices and creations of Ecuadorian politicians, writers, artists, scholars, activists, and journalists fill the Reader, from José María Velasco Ibarra, the nation’s ultimate populist and five-time president, to Pancho Jaime, a political satirist; from Julio Jaramillo, a popular twentieth-century singer, to anonymous indigenous women artists who produced ceramics in the 1500s; and from the poems of Afro-Ecuadorians, to the fiction of the vanguardist Pablo Palacio, to a recipe for traditional Quiteño-style shrimp. The Reader includes an interview with Nina Pacari, the first indigenous woman elected to Ecuador’s national assembly, and a reflection on how to balance tourism with the protection of the Galápagos Islands’ magnificent ecosystem. Complementing selections by Ecuadorians, many never published in English, are samples of some of the best writing on Ecuador by outsiders, including an account of how an indigenous group with non-Inca origins came to see themselves as definitively Incan, an exploration of the fascination with the Andes from the 1700s to the present, chronicles of the less-than-exemplary behavior of U.S. corporations in Ecuador, an examination of Ecuadorians’ overseas migration, and a look at the controversy surrounding the selection of the first black Miss Ecuador.

Book King of the Night

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  • Author : Mark J. Van Aken
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520336690
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book King of the Night written by Mark J. Van Aken and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Book The Voice of the Andes

Download or read book The Voice of the Andes written by HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Struggles of Voice

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  • Author : José Antonio Lucero
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2008-10-31
  • ISBN : 0822973456
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Struggles of Voice written by José Antonio Lucero and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, indigenous populations in Latin America have achieved a remarkable level of visibility and political effectiveness, particularly in Ecuador and Bolivia. In Struggles of Voice, Jose Antonio Lucero examines these two outstanding examples in order to understand their different patterns of indigenous mobilization and to reformulate the theoretical model by which we link political representation to social change. Building on extensive fieldwork, Lucero considers Ecuador's united indigenous movement and compares it to the more fragmented situation in Bolivia. He analyzes the mechanisms at work in political and social structures to explain the different outcomes in each case. Lucero assesses the intricacies of the many indigenous organizations and the influence of various NGOs to uncover how the conflicts within social movements, the shifting nature of indigenous identities, and the politics of transnationalism all contribute to the success or failure of political mobilization.Blending philosophical inquiry with empirical analysis, Struggles of Voice is an informed and incisive comparative history of indigenous movements in these two Andean countries. It helps to redefine our understanding of the complex intersections of social movements and political representation.

Book The History of Ecuador

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  • Author : George M. Lauderbaugh
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-02-25
  • ISBN : 0313362513
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The History of Ecuador written by George M. Lauderbaugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an unmatched, comprehensive political history of Ecuador written in English. Ecuador is a nation of over 13 million people, its area between that of the states of Wyoming and Colorado. Like the United States, Ecuador's government features a democratically elected President serving for a four-year term. The Galápagos Islands, well known as the birthplace of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, are part of a province of Ecuador. The History of Ecuador focuses primarily on the political history of Ecuador and how these past events impact the nation today. This text examines the traditions established by Ecuador's great caudillos (strong men) such as Juan José Flores, Gabriel García Moreno, and Eloy Alfaro, and documents the attempts of liberal leaders to modernize Ecuador by following the example of the United States. This book also discusses three economic booms in Ecuador's history: the Cacao Boom 1890–1914; the Banana Boom 1948–1960; and the Oil Boom 1972–1992.

Book Radio Beyond Voice

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  • Author : Marisol Belén Febres Cordero Intriago
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Radio Beyond Voice written by Marisol Belén Febres Cordero Intriago and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in a context of media reform, this qualitative research follows a performance approach to explore some characteristics of community radio stations in Ecuador and their possible contributions to the needs, struggles, resistances, and initiatives proposed by individuals, communities, and social movements. This work starts from the consideration that the main role of community media is not to "give voice to the voiceless", as it has been previously argued, but to accompany the expressions of individuals and communities that have been historically deprived of their voices. Hence, it suggests that performance can offer a broader scope through which to understand this type of media by transcending the notion of voice and including in the scope of analysis both the verbal and non-verbal mechanisms that individuals and communities find and employ to express themselves.

Book The Department of State Bulletin

Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Book The Voice of Latin America

Download or read book The Voice of Latin America written by William Benton and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Poor  a Peace Corps Chronicle

Download or read book Living Poor a Peace Corps Chronicle written by Moritz Thomsen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Book Call of My Heart

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  • Author : Nancy Conley Burke
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2007-05
  • ISBN : 1434305627
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Call of My Heart written by Nancy Conley Burke and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will discover an entirely new way of looking at yourself because nothing like it exists. Through the unique Shapeology Profile you will learn whether your personality is a square, triangle or circle and how your 'shape' impacts the personal and professional decisions you make in life. You will be guided on how to reshape the landscape of your life by learning who you really are and who you can become. Living in Balance helps you become the architect that will expand your successes in life through the gifts that lie within you. I have become more by reshaping my life. You can do the same. I offer you this gift. Read this book and you may soar like never before.

Book Let s Look at Ecuador

Download or read book Let s Look at Ecuador written by Mary Boone and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Ecuador! See the sites. Enjoy the food. Hear the language. Discover this country's land, people, and traditions. The Capstone Interactive edition comes with simultaneous access for every student in your school and includes read aloud audio recorded by professional voice over artists.

Book Whose National Music

Download or read book Whose National Music written by Ketty Wong and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How class divisions shape the definition of Ecuador's national music and identity

Book Historical Dictionary of Ecuador

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Ecuador written by George M. Lauderbaugh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a country the size of Colorado one can explore snow-capped mountain peaks, tropical rainforests and coastal beaches. These three continental regions also offer a variety of flora and fauna that are a dream come true to the botanist, zoologist and ornithologist. The famous Galápagos Islands provide an additional living laboratory for the natural scientist. The ethnographer and sociologist will be fascinated by the diversity of Ecuador’s people and one could spend a lifetime studying the plethora of distinct ethnic, racial and linguistic groups. Students of economics will find an interesting case study of a mono-cultural economy that uses the U.S. dollar and avoids some of the pitfalls that other Latin American countries suffer from. Ecuador’s rich traditions in art, music, literature and architecture are a draw to scholars interested in culture. Ecuador has been described by one author as a “country of contrasts.” This is indeed an apt description of Ecuador’s geography and peoples. It also partially explains the nation’s traditional lack of political cohesion, which has plagued its quest for stability and development. Historical Dictionary of Ecuador contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ecuador.