Indigenous Settlers of the Galápagos

Auteur

Pilar Sánchez Voelkl is a cultural anthropologist and author of Indigenous Settlers of the Galápagos and Masculinities in Corporate Elites in Colombia and Ecuador.

Texte du rabat

Pilar Sánchez Voelkl offers an anthropological account of the early arrival and prominence of Indigenous peoples in the Galápagos Islands. Their history and everyday life reveal how multiple notions of nature, race, and society travel and meet, shaping the way conservation thought is translated into law.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Ecuadorian Colonization

Chapter 2: Science takes on the Galápagos

Chapter 3: From the Andean Highlands to the Galápagos Islands

Chapter 4: Salasaca Colonos

Chapter 5: The Disappearing "Colono"

Chapter 6: Translating Conservation Law