Reinventing the Inca Past: The Kingdom of Quito, Atahualpa and the Creation of Ecuadorian National Identity

Foote, Nicola

doi:10.1080/17442221003787076

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“…The contemporary incanism of the Ecuadorian indigenous movement emphasizes a connection with Inca Atahualpa, reproducing a nationalistic and inaccurate discourse that portrays him as the Ecuadorian Inca, in opposition to Huascar, his rival during the 1529–1532 civil war of succession who is portrayed as the Peruvian Inca (Foote 2010). Even though the Incas governed present-day Ecuador for less than seven decades, incanism enables links with an ancient civilization, and thereby challenges the stereotypical correlation between indigeneity and primitiveness.…”

Section: The Staging Of Indigenous Cultural Performances During Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performativity, Performance, and Indigenous Activism in Ecuador and the Andes

Huarcaya

2015

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To explain causality between ethnic consciousness and indigenous political activism in the Andes, scholars have proposed two perspectives. Some argue that ethnic consciousness was pre-existing; others claim that it was the product of political organizational processes. In this study, I demonstrate that the ethnic consciousness of Ecuadorian indigenous Andeans has been a dialogical work-in-progress that has hinged significantly on the emergence of self-conscious cultural performance. I analyze the trajectory from submission to assertiveness of Ecuadorian indigenous Andeans and compare it with the Peruvian and Bolivian cases, focusing on the ways in which performance and performativity have constructed indigeneity as a social reality. Performance implies a bounded act done by a subject who consciously performs, whereas performativity refers to the construction of the subject by the reiteration of norms. The research investigates three interrelated fields that are crucial in the constitution of indigeneity: the performativity of racial and ethnic hierarchies, the performance of indigenous culture during protest, and the performance of indigenous festivities. Considering that social hierarchies are iteratively constructed and that cultural performance is part and parcel of the political redress of cultural difference, I argue that through cultural performance Ecuadorian and Bolivian indigenous Andeans have been able to undermine the ways in which performativity has constituted them as subaltern subjects. This transformation has not happened in the Peru, where indigenous Andeans still feel that indigeneity is a stigmatized condition.

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Section: The Staging Of Indigenous Cultural Performances During Timesmentioning

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Performativity, Performance, and Indigenous Activism in Ecuador and the Andes

Huarcaya

2015

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“…Rather than emphasise their superiority as deriving from territorial domination, Ecuadorian elites articulated a national narrative that highlighted their moral superiority as a peace-loving nation that has been under constant threat from external aggressors. Elites re-traced Ecuador's pre-national history not to the Inka 'invaders', but to the mythologised Quijos and Shryiis who preceded them (Foote 2010 Accompanying this discourse of Ecuadorian pacifism were elite calls for cultural unification. As Silva Charvet (2005, p. 101) notes, the founder of Ecuador's La Casa de Cultura, Benjamín Carrión (1988) argued that although Ecuador was not destined to be an economically or militarily dominant country, it could attain a high level of cultural 'advancement'.…”

Section: Borders Nationalism and Citizenship In Ecuadormentioning

confidence: 99%