From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome: 48 (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) - Hardcover

John Pollini (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806142588 ISBN 13: 9780806142586

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Synopsis

Drawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the reasons why indigenous Ecuadorians have bypassed their shared class status with other peasant groups and movements in favor of a political identity based on their unique ethnicity as Indians.In the 1960s and 1970s, land reform and the modernization of economic and political structures in Ecuador led to changes in the sense of self and community held by South American Indian activists. Pallares recounts how a campesinista (peasant-based) identification developed into an indianista (Indian-based) form of personal and communal self-definition. Ethnic identity was no longer conceived as a subset of class identity--a change that shifted the Indians’ ideological focus from local struggles to pan-ethnic resistance.In the process, indigenous peoples created a positive Indian self-definition and a pan-ethnic Indian movement. They also reconceived their political identity, their cultural structures, and the relationship between their social movement and the state. Through this new sense of themselves, they sought to confront racism and obtain political autonomy.

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About the Author

John Pollini is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Southern California. He has published five books and numerous articles and reviews. Among his scholarly awards and honors are a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, two American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, and the Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Recognition Award. He has also served as Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and is an elected Life Member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806142588
• ISBN 13: 9780806142586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576