Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador

Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

doi:10.5771/9781498575942

Summary

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare employs feminist geographical and Indigenous pedagogical frameworks to illustrate how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies that treat Native peoples as “out of place and time” in cities. Fine-Dare concentrates on two overlapping contexts for Indigenous vindication: the Yumbada of Cotocollao, an ancestral performance through which mountain and other spirits are called into the urban plaza; and Casa Kinde (Hummingbird House), a cultural organization that engages in workshops, filmmaking, photography, commerce, community education, and the formation of alliances with anthropologists, activists, filmmakers, engineers, and teachers.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7593-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7594-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Book Titles

1. Copyright page No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. 1. Avenue of the Volcanoes No access
  2. Landscapes of Movement in the Northern Ecuadorian Sierra No access
  3. Ancestral Legacies in the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) No access
  4. Cochasquí No access
  5. Inka Memories and Materialities in Ecuador No access
  6. Inka Footsteps in Quito No access
  7. Conclusion: Inka Treasure No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. Indigenous Urbanity in the Americas No access
  2. Indigenous Life in Colonial Quito No access
  3. Quito in the Early Republic No access
  4. Urban Life in Contemporary Ecuador No access
  5. Pueblo Kitu Kara No access
  6. Conclusion: Pueblo Kitu-Kara and the Kitu Kara Community No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. Historical Background of Northwestern Quito No access
  2. Northwestern Quito Urban Parishes No access
  3. Spiritual and Devotional Practices in Northern Pichincha No access
  4. Conclusion: Devotional Dancing in the City No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Basic Features of the Yumbada of Cotocollao No access
  2. Historical Seeds of the Yumbada No access
  3. Interpretations of Yumbada Survivance No access
  4. Changes to the Yumbada No access
  5. Gendered Yumbada Power No access
  6. Conclusion: PachacutiJ, Tinkuy, and the Unsexed Zero No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Barrio San Enrique de Velasco No access
  2. The Hummingbirds’ Work No access
  3. Legacies of Mensajero del Saber No access
  4. Recent Casa Kinde Accomplishments No access
  5. Conclusion: Sumak Kawsay, Sustainability, and Relationality No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Indigeneity as Force No access
  2. Ashtakashkaman: Space-time Reflections of Urban Indigeneity in Quito No access
  3. Complexities of Talking about Indigeneity No access
  4. Indigenous Peoples as Transnational Actors in the Global City No access
  5. Notes No access
References No access Pages 195 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 234
About the Author No access Pages 235 - 236