M D Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 17893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8921-0949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Healing Perceptions to Social Embeddedness
This study explores how people identifying as mestizo perceive healing in the city of Quito, Ecuador, an urban context shaped by Indigenous medical pluralism, sociocultural syncretism, and systemic health inequities. Based on drawing elicitation interviews and focused ethnographic fieldwork conducted across socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods, we combined Panofsky’s iconology with reflexive thematic analysis to interpret participants’ visual …
Made in Ecuador
This article examines the relevance of dominant mestizo imaginaries of Ecuadorian natural and cultural heritage in constructing national identity as expressed through consumer perceptions of national products. Conducted in collaboration with a large retail conglomerate and focusing on mestizo consumers in the country’s two largest cities, Quito and Guayaquil, we consider how consumer perceptions embody a legacy of (post)colonial tensions regardin…
Reflexive collaboration
This article illustrates the value of reflexive dialogue regarding foundational assumptions about ontologies of culture and cultural change, as well as regarding key methodological and epistemological tensions at critical junctures in the research process, in a collaborative ethnographic study undertaken by Ecuador's largest banking institution in partnership with a team of university anthropologists. While acknowledging the importance of ethnogr…
El Estado disperso
Este artículo teoriza las relaciones entre la ciudadanía y el Estado ecuatoriano durante el primer año y medio de la pandemia COVID-19. Basado en una metodología cualitativa de entrevistas, las perspectivas de los participantes revelan relaciones contradictorias con el gobierno características de los estados de seguridad neoliberales, pero también de patrones (pos)coloniales persistentes de exclusión racista y clasista: por un lado, un sentido de…
Covid-19 en América Latina
El eje de esta compilación gira alrededor de la solidaridad: cómo la gente la cosechó, practicó o simplemente la desterró durante la pandemia en América Latina. El libro es uno de los resultados de un proyecto de investigación diseñado por un equipo de trabajo internacional y conformado por académicos y académicas de universidades latinoamericanas y europeas. Casos de estudio basados en ocho países latinoamericanos (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Méxic…
Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during Covid-19 in Latin America and Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grapple with how their own lives were affected by the global nature of the pandemic. In this article, based on 493 qualitative interviews conducted between 2020 a…
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust
This article documents, contextualizes, and theorizes the significance of technological divides and inequalities of access, along with diverse accommodations, adaptations, resistances, and alternatives to health and communications technologies that have unfolded in two South American countries during the COVID-19 emergency: Ecuador and Argentina. Based on a shared qualitative interview methodology that focused on issues of social inequality and d…
Growing up Quechua
Drawing from life history interviews with transnational indigenous intellectual Gina Maldonado, of Cusco, Peru, this article examines how Andean children are in motion not only in terms of migration but also across cultural contexts and boundaries that reshape and transform their subjectivities. It also demonstrates the usefulness of life history methods for childhood studies. Processes of movement relationally reconfigure the most salient aspect…
Inca of the Blood, Inca of the Soul
In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which supposedly resides in Quechua bodies, even as they freely appropriate Quechua cosmology and ritual for a hybridized New Age Andean spirituality. This case shows how racialized structural inequalities are expres…
Inca of the Blood, Inca of the Soul
In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which supposedly resides in Quechua bodies, even as they freely appropriate Quechua cosmology and ritual for a hybridized New Age Andean spirituality. This case shows how racialized structural inequalities are expres…
Growing up Quechua
Drawing from life history interviews with transnational indigenous intellectual Gina Maldonado, of Cusco, Peru, this article examines how Andean children are in motion not only in terms of migration but also across cultural contexts and boundaries that reshape and transform their subjectivities. It also demonstrates the usefulness of life history methods for childhood studies. Processes of movement relationally reconfigure the most salient aspect…
Inca of the Blood, Inca of the Soul
In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which supposedly resides in Quechua bodies, even as they freely appropriate Quechua cosmology and ritual for a hybridized New Age Andean spirituality. This case shows how racialized structural inequalities are expres…
Growing up Quechua
Drawing from life history interviews with transnational indigenous intellectual Gina Maldonado, of Cusco, Peru, this article examines how Andean children are in motion not only in terms of migration but also across cultural contexts and boundaries that reshape and transform their subjectivities. It also demonstrates the usefulness of life history methods for childhood studies. Processes of movement relationally reconfigure the most salient aspect…
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust
This article documents, contextualizes, and theorizes the significance of technological divides and inequalities of access, along with diverse accommodations, adaptations, resistances, and alternatives to health and communications technologies that have unfolded in two South American countries during the COVID-19 emergency: Ecuador and Argentina. Based on a shared qualitative interview methodology that focused on issues of social inequality and d…
Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during Covid-19 in Latin America and Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grapple with how their own lives were affected by the global nature of the pandemic. In this article, based on 493 qualitative interviews conducted between 2020 a…
Covid-19 en América Latina
El eje de esta compilación gira alrededor de la solidaridad: cómo la gente la cosechó, practicó o simplemente la desterró durante la pandemia en América Latina. El libro es uno de los resultados de un proyecto de investigación diseñado por un equipo de trabajo internacional y conformado por académicos y académicas de universidades latinoamericanas y europeas. Casos de estudio basados en ocho países latinoamericanos (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Méxic…
Reflexive collaboration
This article illustrates the value of reflexive dialogue regarding foundational assumptions about ontologies of culture and cultural change, as well as regarding key methodological and epistemological tensions at critical junctures in the research process, in a collaborative ethnographic study undertaken by Ecuador's largest banking institution in partnership with a team of university anthropologists. While acknowledging the importance of ethnogr…
El Estado disperso
Este artículo teoriza las relaciones entre la ciudadanía y el Estado ecuatoriano durante el primer año y medio de la pandemia COVID-19. Basado en una metodología cualitativa de entrevistas, las perspectivas de los participantes revelan relaciones contradictorias con el gobierno características de los estados de seguridad neoliberales, pero también de patrones (pos)coloniales persistentes de exclusión racista y clasista: por un lado, un sentido de…
From Healing Perceptions to Social Embeddedness
This study explores how people identifying as mestizo perceive healing in the city of Quito, Ecuador, an urban context shaped by Indigenous medical pluralism, sociocultural syncretism, and systemic health inequities. Based on drawing elicitation interviews and focused ethnographic fieldwork conducted across socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods, we combined Panofsky’s iconology with reflexive thematic analysis to interpret participants’ visual …
Made in Ecuador
This article examines the relevance of dominant mestizo imaginaries of Ecuadorian natural and cultural heritage in constructing national identity as expressed through consumer perceptions of national products. Conducted in collaboration with a large retail conglomerate and focusing on mestizo consumers in the country’s two largest cities, Quito and Guayaquil, we consider how consumer perceptions embody a legacy of (post)colonial tensions regardin…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2 works)