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Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface: The Present, the Past, and Patriarchy -- 1. National Dilemmas: The Specter of Liberal Individualism in Ecuador -- 2. Making Ecuadorians? Indian Child-Men and the Abolition of Tribute -- 3. Garcianismo: Patriarchy and Paradoxical Indian-State Relations -- 4. Liberalism: The Marriage of Democracy and Patriarchy? -- 5. Alternative Patriarchy: Gender Relations among Indigenous Peasants -- 6. Family Matters: Gender and Social Control on Haciendas -- 7. Gendered Foundations: Contradictions in Indian-State Relations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article draws from an enacted ethnography conducted over four years in a glassblowing studio, where I immersed myself in the learning process to become a glassblower. Specifically, it uses the visceral ethnographic experience of handwork in glassblowing to unpack the micro-meanings of hand coordination and examine Michael Polanyi's theory of tacit knowledge 'from the body' (Ingold, 2000; Pink, 2009; Wacquant, 2015: 5). Methodologically, handwork is the 'point of production' by which to reflect upon Polanyi's analytical concepts (Wacquant, 2015: 5). Broadly engaging anthropology's study of the relation of gesture and form both within and outside of glassblowing studios and the sociology of skill, this analysis brings the body's embedded experience and constitutive power to bear on analyses of tacit knowledge to reveal how handwork is itself constitutive of form and meaning (Atkinson, 2013b; Harper, 1987; Keller and Keller, 1996; Malafourius, 2008; Marchand, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2001; Sudnow, 1978). It also grounds a reinterpretation of the proximal term in Polanyi's theory of tacit knowledge.

Reseña de Estado y colonialidad. Mujeres y familias quichuas de la Sierra del Ecuador, 1925-1975

I am working on a book that examines the cultural and political implications of domesticity in Spanish America since independence, focusing on the nations of Ecuador, Mexico, and Argentina. I ask questions such as "Why did state officials often place domestic issues at the center of state building projects?" and "How did women of different classes and races engage with domestic realities, ideologies, and policies?" I propose to use FLRG funds to conduct two months' research in Quito, Ecuador, regarding how and why domestic life came under increasing state scrutiny from 1895-1950. Research in Ecuador is particularly important to the project, as it is difficult to obtain Ecuadorian sources from within the U.S. This research will result in one to two conference papers, at least one article submission, and, in the long run, lay the foundations for at least one chapter in my book on Spanish American domesticity.

Getting at the tacit understandings of an artful practice is critical in coming to understand the processes of creativity. To achieve this, the researcher, specifically the ethnographer, must place herself in the position of the maker, that is she must herself, make and create. This article provides an account of arriving at the methodological imperative of in situ ethnographic research through actual ethnographic research on the relation of maker and material. From an in situ position, it theorizes the modalities of expression in practice, from problem-solving, to personal style, to the intentional drawing in of embodied histories in practice. This incorporation of varying embodied histories into a current practice is then explored as the possibility for affecting what is recognized in the field as "new" or "innovative". We will see, however, that is affect is grounded more in the corporeal revealing of unexpected aspects of the material worked up.

One of the great challenges of teaching Latin American history in U.S. colleges is the paucity of primary-source documents available in translation for use in the classroom. Particularly rare are sources that help students explore the significance of gender and race in the social and political history of Latin America. I have a contract with Prentice Hall to co-author a two-volume documentary history text that addresses this problem. I am primarily responsible for volume II, which focuses on race, gender, and nation in Latin America since Independence. I am contributing two chapters based on my own research, constructing nine chapters based on documents already available in translation, editing other contributors' chapters and writing introductory materials for both the volumes in general and for different sub-sections of volume II. I am seeking a FLRG for two course releases, and some expenses toward publication, to complete work on this innovative documentary history.

This essay does not promote the Victims' Rights Amendment16 or advocate any other specific victims' rights proposal. 17 Rather, it suggests that, as a positive matter, victim involvement in the criminal process is becoming and will continue to be a reality of our criminal justice process. Too often law professors feel content to dogmatically insist that crimes are wrongs committed against the public rather than an individual and that, therefore, victim involvement in criminal cases beyond the potential witness capacity is inappropriate.' 8 Contrary to their assertions, however, victims have been involved in the disposition of criminal cases for much longer than they have been marginalized, and they are unlikely to remain impotent forces in the disposition of cases. As a consequence, advocates must think creatively about how to provide victims with participation at a minimal cost to existing procedural protections for defendants. Part I of this essay briefly traces the evolution of state control over criminal prosecution. Part II argues that, as a matter of political economy, an unstable equilibrium is created by closing victims out of the criminal justice system. This article leaves for future discussion the identification of desirable victims' rights reforms.

: I seek course release time to complete revisions to my book "Dueling Patriarchies: Gender, Indians, and Nation-State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Ecuador," plus $1800 for costs related to revisions. The manuscript is under advanced contract with the University of Arizona Press. This monograph explores nation making from the perspectives of state officials and indigenous men and women. It not only addresses Ecuadorian nation making as a contested and negotiated historical development, but it also helps to explain the importance of gender in contemporary indigenous politics in Ecuador. Having spent several years collecting and analyzing a variety of archival evidence, I am in final phases of revising the manuscript for publication. Three chapters need significant restructuring or reconsideration before publication; the grant would allow me to devote significant time to these chapters and meet my July 1, 2006 deadline for submission and result in a monograph of the highest quality.

This article chimes in on the current debate about the proper relationship between apology and the law. Several states are considering legislation designed to shield apologies from the courtroom, and mediators are increasing their focus on the importance of apologies. The article develops an evolutionary economic analysis of apology that combines the tools of economics, game theory and biology to more fully understand its role in dispute resolution. When the analysis is applied to the uses of apology before and at trial, a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between apology and the law emerges.

Recent US court enforcement of foreign forum-selection clauses is durable only to the extent that the clauses make the contracts more valuable to the parties. The clauses can create value by making dispute resolution more certain, reliable, sensible, or efficient. In a few cases, the clauses can create value by significantly increasing the costs of formal dispute resolution. However, sometimes forum-selection clauses create no value. Rather, they simply reflect the stronger contracting party's desire to litigate at home. In these cases, both parties to the contract prefer a legal rule under which foreign forum-selection clauses are not enforced. Forum-selection clauses in international shipping contracts appear not to create value for the parties. In contrast, arbitration provisions in these contracts might create value for both shippers and carriers.

This Article uses public choice theory to analyze the function of choice-of-law clauses in contracts. Choice-of-law clauses are now quite common and are increasingly enforced, especially with the proliferation of international and Internet transactions. Because these clauses can be used by parties to avoid regulation, academics are now vigorously debating the extent to which this contractual opt out should be permitted. The Article presents a positive political theory of the interplay of legislative action and the enforcement of choice of law. It demonstrates that the important normative debate over choice of law is somewhat misguided because both sides fail to fully understand the effect that these clauses can have on interest group bargaining in the legislature. Once the issue is fully understood, seemingly counterintuitive posturing can result: Regulatory proponents may actually favor choice-of-law clauses, and Libertarians can find themselves opposing their enforcement.