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Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered
or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the
indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings
for centuries while adapting to each new situation. Today,
indigenous Salascans continue to devote a large part of their lives
to their distinctive practices--both community rituals and
individual behaviors--while living side by side with white-mestizo
culture.
In this book Rachel Corr provides a knowledgeable account of the
Salasacan religion and rituals and their respective histories.
Based on eighteen years of fieldwork in Salasaca, as well as
extensive research in Church archives--including
never-before-published documents--Corr's book illuminates how
Salasacan culture adapted to Catholic traditions and recentered,
reinterpreted, and even reshaped them to serve similarly motivated
Salasacan practices, demonstrating the link between formal and folk
Catholicism and pre-Columbian beliefs and practices. Corr also
explores the intense connection between the local Salasacan rituals
and the mountain landscapes around them, from peak to valley.
"Ritual and Remembrance" in the Ecuadorian Andes is, in its
portrayal of Salasacan religious culture, both thorough and
all-encompassing. Sections of the book cover everything from the
performance of death rituals to stories about Amazonia as
Salasacans interacted with outsiders--conquistadors and
camera-toting tourists alike. Corr also investigates the role of
shamanism in modern Salasacan culture, including shamanic powers
and mountain spirits, and the use of reshaped, Andeanized
Catholicism to sustain collective memory. Through its unique
insider's perspective of Salasacan spirituality, Ritual and
Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is a valuable anthropological
work that honestly represents this people's great ability to adapt.
In the 1600s, Marcos Cunamasi, an Indigenous man in Pelileo,
Ecuador, hid his child to protect him from officials who would put
the boy to work in the textile mill. Cunamasi was forced to turn
him over. Because his young son couldn't keep up with spinning his
quota of wool per day, Cunamasi helped so the child wouldn't be
whipped. After working a year, Cunamasi was paid a shirt and a hat.
Interwoven is the untold story of Indigenous people's historical
experience in colonial Ecuador's textile economy. It focuses on the
lives of Native Andean families in Pelileo, a town dominated by one
of Quito's largest and longest-lasting textile mills. Quito's
textile industry developed as a secondary market to supply cloth to
mining centers in the Andes; thus, the experience of Indigenous
people in Pelileo is linked to the history of mining in Bolivia and
Peru. Although much has been written about colonial Quito's textile
economy, Rachel Corr provides a unique perspective by putting
Indigenous voices at the center of that history. Telling the
stories of Andean families of Pelileo, she traces their varied
responses to historical pressures over three hundred years; the
responses range from everyday acts to the historical transformation
of culture through ethnogenesis. These stories of ordinary Andean
men and women provide insight into the lived experience of the
people who formed the backbone of Quito's textile industry.
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