Indigenous Women's Identities and the Politics of Cultural Reproduction in the Ecuadorian Amazon

This essay explores the current problems of cultural reproduction and identity politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon through the personal memory narratives of a group of elder indigenous women facing difficulties with their granddaughters. It argues that women's histories and their conceptions of self are inscribed in their experiences in a self-defined “domestic space.” This intracultural struggle provides a better understanding of the scripts of cultural reproduction being played, largely by men, in other scenarios.