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1	A FUELWOOD MANAGEMENT PLAN AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR ALDER (ALNUS JORULLENSIS) IN THE ECUADORIAN ANDES Dunn, Walter Wheat, 1958- January 1987 (has links) Information on alder (Alnus jorullensis silvics and dendrology, propagation, and management were synthesized into four alternatives for fuelwood management in Saraguro, Loja, Ecuador. Stem volume was estimated from diameter and height measurements taken in 16 stands of known age in Ecuador using an empirical equation developed in Costa Rica. An empirical equation describing the relationship between stem volume and tree age for alder in Ecuador was then developed. Measurements of 5 fuelwood units from Saraguro were used to determine the market price for a cubic meter of fuelwood. Four mangement regimes using a 20 year rotation were then examined at four discount rates. Using a 15% real rate of interest, thinning at 10 years yielded a present net value of 891,059 sucres and a benefit-cost ratio of 1.31. The analysis was more sensitive to changes in fuelwood price than to changes in wage rate. Alder -- Ecuador -- Saraguro. Fuelwood crops -- Ecuador -- Saraguro.
2	In search of a nobler past : incanismo and community tourism in Saraguro, Ecuador Jenson, Jason, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science January 2011 (has links) Historical notions of Noble Savagery have been contemporarily translated and massified in popular culture so that traits that “Indigenous People” are believed to possess, are conflated with those of the Noble Savage of lore and taken for granted as truth. The Noble Savage is the embodiment of the tourist’s notion of the authentic; the more traits Indigenous people are assumed to share with the western notion of the Noble Savage the more authentic they are deemed, and the more attractive they are to the visiting tourist. In Saraguro tourism and incanismo mutually validate and reinforce each other. Tourists valorize their own preconceived notions of indigenous culture, and in turn validate incanismo through participation in Incaic cultural performances. Neo-Incans are objectifying and consuming their own dreams though the tourist gaze, and the resultant cultural commodification and the (re)appropriation of a nobler past has led to cultural revalorization of an indigenous elite. / viii, 213 leaves; 29 cm Tourism -- Ecuador Noble savage Dissertations, Academic
3	Comuneros : community and indigeneity in Saraguro, Ecuador Stanger, James R, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science January 2011 (has links) This thesis examines the concept of the indigenous community in Saraguro, Ecuador. I explore the myriad and co-existing ideas of community and community participation at the local level, focusing on two of the defining practices of community integration: monthly assemblies and communal labour parties. Acknowledging the role of the state in the production of local communities, the historical and contemporary relations between highland Ecuadorian indigenous communities and the state are examined in an effort to contextualize the importance placed on communities as autonomous spaces. Centering around a nationwide indigenous-led protest in May of 2010, ideas of mestizaje, modernization, historical fears of the Indian, and community justice are discussed to help analyze the continuously negotiated boundary between indigenous communities and the nation-state. Finally, competing conceptualizations of indigeneity are examined with respect to a recent neo-Inkaic cultural revitalization movement, partly NGO sponsored, that has emerged in the area. iii / vii, 176 leaves ; 29 cm Group identity -- Ecuador -- Saraguro Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity Dissertations, Academic
4	Bringing up good babies : an ethnography of moral apprenticeship in Saraguro Jenson, Jennifer J, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science January 2011 (has links) This thesis is based on an ethnographic investigation of indigenous childrearing theories of the Saraguros of southern Ecuador, with particular emphasis on the effect they believe their childrearing practices to have on infants’ and toddlers’ moral apprenticeship. To understand this learning process, I focused on children from newborn to age three and their caregivers, using everyday decisions involving babywearing and sleep practices as a window onto the ways apprenticeship is practiced among Saraguros and their particular moral standards. The moral apprenticeship of Saraguro babies is therefore considered as a product of local learning styles, constructions of childhood, and infant care practices, which create cultural self-fulfilling prophecies regarding young children’s development and capabilities. Their experiential learning system is being challenged by national children’s rights programs, which are informed by universalized visions of proper childhoods, rendering early childhood in Saraguro an interesting site from which to view the process of cultural change. / ix, 211 leaves ; 29 cm Child rearing -- Ecuador Parenting -- Ecuador Moral development -- Ecuador Saraguro (Ecuador) Dissertations, Academic
5	"La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador Vincent, Leah C. 16 April 2010 (has links) No description available. History Latin American History Law Literacy Native Americans Native Studies Philosophy Rhetoric indigenous peoples Ecuador sovereignty conquest Saraguro intercultural dialogue regime of truth

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