Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador

by Barry J. Lyons

Book Overview

From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa-Quichua-speaking indigenous people-worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy.Lyons lived for three years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292714394
• ISBN13: 9780292714397
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"