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The Ecuador Effect
The Ecuador Effect
The Ecuador Effect
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May 1970, freelance human rights investigator John Alexander rides on horseback, away from the scene of his latest mission. Flames engulf the second story of the Hacienda Atalaya in southern Ecuador's Santa Isabel district that Alexander and a local named Efraín have just set ablaze. Their arson is not just a typical job in Alexander's "human rights" campaign. It is a symbolic burning of the powerful Veintimita clan's shady politics and exploitation of the local peasantry. A hired snitch who has investigated the international sex trade, agribusiness scandals, shady elections, and political murders for various foundations' boards, Alexander is a single guy with two American passports, a British residency card, a master's degree in folklore from Edinburgh, and an attitude.

Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian/Quechua Indian culture with the drama of a novel. David Stuart fictionalizes major events he witnessed while doing anthropological fieldwork in Ecuador and shares the real-life struggles of the cholos, the mestizos, and the indios in their attempts to maintain their working-class livelihoods in a strikingly stratified society that pushes them out of their traditional settlements.

PEN Southwest 2007 fiction finalist

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 31, 2007
ISBN9780826341013
The Ecuador Effect
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David E. Stuart

David E. Stuart, senior scholar and interim president at the School for Advanced Research, is also the author of The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde and Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency, both available from the University of New Mexico Press.

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    abandoned, next, summer-2013, ecuadorRead in August, 2013fiction> ecuadordedication: For Rory Gauthier. . . thanks for the rideOpening:Hacienda Atalaya,Southern EcuadorMAY 20, 1970As flames rose into the night, an immense columnof smoke and hot air suddenly burst upward andthe Southern Cross rippled eerily in the crystallineAndean sky. Until Hacienda Atalaya’s second storey—packed with dried corn and firewood—caught fire andtransformed into a raging inferno, I thought the gutteringfire we’d surreptitiously started under one endof its columned gallery was doomed to fail.Anthropological expertise does not necessarily make for good writing.

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