Geography 314D

Field Experience in

Ecuador

BOOKS FOR ECUADOR

REQUIRED:
Wilma Roos and Omer van Renterghem (1997). Ecuador In Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture. Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books, ISBN1-56656-262-7 (~$15 or less)

RECOMMENDED:

Choose at least one of the following to read as your “focus” to share in discussions with fellow students.

Allen Gerlach (2003). Indians, Oil, and Politics, a Recent History of Ecuador. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc. ISBN 0-8420-5107-4 (paper) $23.95

Joe Kane (1996). Savages, $10 at Amazon.com, used for $4 and up.

David E. Stuart (2007).  The Ecuador Effect.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (This is a novel based on author's research into the culture of southern Ecuador as an anthropologist.)

Michael Uzendoski (2005).  The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador.  Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Suzana Sawyer (2004).  Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador.  Durham: Duke University Press.

M.J. Weismantel (1988). Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-8115-2

Robert Whitaker (1998). The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon; Hardcover; $16.50 (This is an historical novel, well researched, about the French surveying expedition to establish the location of the equator and the shape of the earth. The latter half of the book is on the tale of survival (and death) in the Amazon.)

Norman E.Whitten, Jr (2003). Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics; Paperback; $17.61

Last updated: 5/4/09

Syllabus * Readings * Itinerary * Budget * Packing List * Pictures * Home