Shifting Paternalisms in Indian-State Relations, 1895–1950

• Published in: Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador Vol. 349; p. 89
• Main Author: Clark, A Kim
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Pittsburgh Press 26.08.2007
• Subjects: Agricultural buildings; Applied arts; Architecture; Arts; Authoritarianism; Behavioral sciences; Buildings; Citizenship; Civil law; Earth sciences; Economic disciplines; Economics; Ecuador; Ethnic groups; Foreign policy; Geography; Geomorphology; Government; Government programs; Government relations; Haciendas; Highlands; Human societies; Indigenous populations; Juntas; Labor; Labor economics; Land law; Land ownership; Landowners; Law; Liberalism; Lower class; Paternalism; Peasant class; Physical sciences; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political science; Public administration; Public policy; Public projects; Public works; Ranches; Social classes; Social mobilization; Social stratification; Social structures; Sociology; South Amerindians; State formation; State-society relations; Topography
• ISBN: 0822943360; 9780822943365
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt5vkf9b.11

Relations between Indians and the state in highland Ecuador exhibit a multiplicity of sites of domination in what we often homogenize as “the state.” When Indians offered deference to certain state officials, it was often as part of an explicit rejection of other officials from whom they withdrew such deference. Thus, attitudes of deference were not inherent to Indians or a simple product of domination, but were part of a set of political strategies that could sometimes be quite effective. According to E. P. Thompson’s analysis of paternalism and deference, plebs defer to the gentry only when the latter fulfill