Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization

摘要: While doing fieldwork in Peguche, Ecuador, Linda D'Amico found herself working with and befriending Rosa Lema, a woman who had previously worked anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons. One of the founding mothers anthropology, Parsons's 1940 Peguche laid foundations for development feminist anthropology ethnic studies. while unknown to most Americans, is an indigenous whose efforts bring changes her village country--most notably as ambassador Galo Plaza's government's Cultural Mission promote economic integration--afford unique view rise interculturalism ideology. Gender at center D'Amico's analysis she looks beyond overlapping lives these two women, both innovators adept crossing cultural boundaries, explore interrelationship between gender, ethnicity, globalization.