<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear LASA Ecuatorianistas:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Marc Becker, formerly of the <i class="">ecuatorianistas</i> section of LASA, suggested I send you this query.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">I have worked and lived in Cañar, Ecuador for many years - first as a photographer, then as a Fulbrighter (2000, 2005, 2015-16), as an author of two books (U. of Texas Press), and now as a community archivist (Archivo Cultural de Cañar). </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Now I would like to post a note on the LASA listserve reqeusting an intern, graduate student or researcher to work with me in Cañar on an archive project. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">In particular, I am requesting a historian to help gather oral histories with the older folks in this indigenous community who still remember the epoch of the local Hacienda Guantug - which dominated Cañar until the 1970’s - and the agrarian reform. Those elders who survive are old now, of course, but some have sharp memories and vivid storytelling skills. Time is critically short to capture this period, and my work on the digital archive project precludes me from taking it on alone.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">For six months earlier this year, ethnomusicologist Dr. Allison Adrian worked with me in Cañar to document traditional music and musicians in video and sound, and I feel I have a model that would work for other researchers. What I have to offer is my deep relationship with the local indigenous community, which allows a researcher to get right to work through my network of contacts. The candidate would have to have fluent Spanish and independent financing. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Please advise if I will be allowed to use the LASA listserv. If so, to whom I shoud send the posting. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Thank you,</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Judy Blankenship</font></div><div class=""><a href="http://judyblankenship.com/" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">judyblankenship.com</font></a></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>