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ISBN: | 9781442207554 1442207558 9781442207547 144220754X 9786612922640 6612922648 9781442207530 1442207531
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), which in 1990 led a powerful uprising that dramatically placed a struggle for Indigenous rights at the center of public consciousness. Activists began to refer to this uprising as a "pachakutik," a Kichwa word that means change, rebirth, and transformation, both in the sense of a return in ti.
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Other form: | Print version: Becker, Marc. Pachakutik. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011 9781442207530
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Standard no.: | 9786612922640
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