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Corr's superlative examination of primary sources offers new understandings regarding processes of ethnogenesis among the people of Salasaca. This microhistory of an Andean community speaks to the experience of indigenous people throughout Latin America. --Elizabeth Terese Newman, author of Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico A detailed historical investigation by an experienced ethnographer with vast experience working among the people and archives of the region. . . . [Interwoven] shows how the indigenous peoples of Salasaca have not only adapted to but also emerged victorious over colonialism through generations of struggle and suffering. --Michael A. Uzendoski, co-author of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Storytelling and Shamanism Among the Napo Runa

Corr's superlative examination of primary sources offers new understandings regarding processes of ethnogenesis among the people of Salasaca. This microhistory of an Andean community speaks to the experience of Indigenous people throughout Latin America. --Elizabeth Terese Newman, author of Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico A detailed historical investigation by an experienced ethnographer with vast experience working among people and archives of the region. . . . [Interwoven] shows how the indigenous peoples of Salasaca have not only adapted to but also emerged victorious over colonialism though generations of struggle and suffering. --Michael A. Uzendoski, co-author of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa

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Rachel Corr is an associate professor of anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ecuador since 1990. She is the author of Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes.

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