Costume and History in Highland Ecuador / / Lynn A. Meisch, Ann Pollard Rowe; ed. by Ann Pollard Rowe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rowe, Ann Pollard,; Meisch, Lynn A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Austin, Suzanne,; Bruhns, Karen Olsen,; Meisch, Lynn A.,; Rappaport, Joanne,; Rowe, Ann Pollard,; Rowe, John Howland,; Rowe, Pollard,; Young-Sánchez, Margaret,
• HerausgeberIn: Rowe, Ann Pollard,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes—women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats—instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent vintage than might be expected.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ecuador before the Incas -- The Geography of Ecuador -- An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ecuador -- Costume in Ecuador before the Incas -- Evidence for Pre-Inca Textiles -- 2. Ecuador under the Inca Empire -- The Incas in Quito -- Costume under the Inca Empire -- 3. Ecuador under the Spanish Empire -- An Introduction to the History of Colonial Ecuador -- Colonial Costume -- 4. Historical Developments in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ecuador -- Introduction -- 5. Carchi Province (Ecuador) and the Department of Nariño (Colombia) -- Introduction -- 6. Costume in Imbabura Province -- Otavalo -- Natabuela -- Eastern Imbabura and Northeastern Pichincha Provinces -- 7. Costume in Southern Pichincha Province -- Introduction -- 8. Costume in Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, and Bolívar Provinces -- Introduction -- 9. Costume in Chimborazo and Cañar Provinces -- Introduction -- 10. Azuay Province -- The Cholos of Azuay: Historical Introduction -- Historic Costume in Azuay -- 11. Saraguro Costume in Loja Province -- Introduction -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossary -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index