
Hungry for Hope
On the cultural and communicative dimensions of development in highland Ecuador
Series: Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development
Published: 1997
Pages: 128
eBook: 9781780445175
Paperback: 9781853394034
Abbreviations viii | |||
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Acknowledgements ix | |||
Preface xi | |||
1. A story of dead sheep 1 | |||
Introducing a paradox 4 | |||
2. Anthropology and development 7 | |||
An uneasy relationship 7 | |||
Participatory and indigenous knowledge approaches 9 | |||
3. In the parish of the poor 13 | |||
Living in Zumbahua 15 | |||
Ecology and economy 18 | |||
History of Zumbahua 19 | |||
The community of Michacala 22 | |||
Labour organization 24 | |||
Kin 27 | |||
Agrarian structure 28 | |||
Livestock economy 29 | |||
Conclusion 31 | |||
4. Views on the environment 34 | |||
A scientific view of nature 35 | |||
Climate and altitude 35 | |||
Geography 37 | |||
A Michacalan view of environmental forces 39 | |||
Evil wind 41 | |||
Taken-by-the-mountain 42 | |||
Tingu 44 | |||
Conditions for a good harvest 45 | |||
5. Veterinary and indigenous models of sheep management 51 | |||
Veterinary views of sheep breeding 55 | |||
Genetic selection 55 | |||
Nutrition 56 | |||
Management practices 58 | |||
Sheep health 61 | |||
A critical review 64 | |||
An indigenous model of sheep health 67 | |||
Rainbow 67 | |||
Bad luck 69 | |||
Sinister person 71 | |||
Witchcraft 72 | |||
Principles of the indigenous model 73 | |||
Testing the model: protective witchcraft 76 | |||
Conclusion 79 | |||
6. Hungry for Hope: on the cultural and communicative | |||
dimensions of development 82 | |||
The rationality debate 82 | |||
Dialogue and change 85 | |||
Communicative rationality 87 | |||
Getting hungry for hope 91 | |||
Notes 93 | |||
Glossary 101 | |||
Sources 102 | |||
References 103 |
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