The 1992 Indian Mobilization in Lowland Ecuador

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3206341
AutoresSuzana Sawyer (Allpamanda, Causaimanda, Jatarishun (For Land, For Life, Rise Up), autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas65-82
Fecha de publicación1997-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x9702400305
OpenAlexW2026775073
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas13

province in the central Ecuadorian Amazon gathered in Puyo, the provincial capital, to embark on what would become one of the most effective mobili-zations of lowland Indians in recent Latin American history. Adorned with facial paint and feathers, carrying spears and children, often ill-prepared for the vagaries of lowland-highland climate change, Quichua, Achuar, and Shiwiar peacefully marched to Quito, Ecuador’s capital, some 240 kilometers away on the northern Andean plateau. Their goal was the realization of two demands-the communal titling of 2,000,000 hectares of contiguous rain-forest territory (approximately 70 percent of the province) and constitutional reform declaring Ecuador a plurinational and pluricultural state. The 1992 march, one of three pivotal indigenous mobilizations since 1990 to challenge the Ecuadorian state, ’ was a crucial juncture in the process of indigenous nation building. Indian leaders crafted a platform from which to voice their claims by weaving international concerns for tropical conserva-tion and indigenous rights together with local understandings of identity and place. Although support was not unanimous and victory was less than complete, the march constituted a unique moment of indigenous agency. By exploring the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities in state-indigenous and mestizo-indigenous relations, I trace the ways in which it inspired an ongoing national debate on the authority of the Ecuadorian state and the Suzana Sawyer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University

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