[Lasa] Book Discount

[Rachel Corr]

Apologies for cross-posting:


Dear All,
  My book Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy,  is now available from The University of Arizona Press at a 40% discount until December 25th, 2018, using the following code: AZAAA18. It is available at  orders at press.uchicago.edu  or by calling 1-800-621-2736. I'm attaching the description from the press website below.

Best,
Rachel


Interwoven – UAPress<https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/interwoven>
uapress.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona Press. The University of Arizona Press 1510 E. University Blvd. P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055. Our offices are located on the fifth floor of the Main Library building, to your right as you exit the elevators.


Interwoven
Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador's Textile Economy


Rachel Corr<https://uapress.arizona.edu/author/rachel-corr> (Author)
Hardcover ($55.00), Ebook ($55.00)BUY<https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart2/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816538140&PRESS=arizona>


In the 1600s, Marcos Cunamasi, an indigenous man in Pelileo, Ecuador, hid his child to protect him from officials who would put the boy to work in the textile mill. Cunamasi was forced to turn him over. Because his young son couldn’t keep up with spinning his quota of wool per day, Cunamasi helped so the child wouldn’t be whipped. After working a year, Cunamasi was paid a shirt and a hat.

Interwoven is the untold story of indigenous people’s historical experience in colonial Ecuador’s textile economy. It focuses on the lives of Native Andean families in Pelileo, a town dominated by one of Quito’s largest and longest-lasting textile mills. Quito’s textile industry developed as a secondary market to supply cloth to mining centers in the Andes; thus, the experience of indigenous people in Pelileo is linked to the history of mining in Bolivia and Peru.

Although much has been written about colonial Quito’s textile economy, Rachel Corr provides a unique perspective by putting indigenous voices at the center of that history. Telling the stories of Andean families of Pelileo, she traces their varied responses to historical pressures over three hundred years; the responses range from everyday acts to the historical transformation of culture through ethnogenesis. These stories of ordinary Andean men and women provide insight into the lived experience of the people who formed the backbone of Quito’s textile industry.

“This book will interest scholars of Indigenous history, the Andes, and colonialism; Corr’s clear writing and inclusion of personal life stories also make it well suited for course adoption.”—Choice

“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

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Rachel Corr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Wilkes Honors College
Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Dr.
Jupiter, FL 33458
(561) 799-8018; fax (561) 799-8602
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