Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands,
and the Galapagos 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 Jose Maria 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
Quiteno-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 Galapagos 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.
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