Ecuador

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1,3, Furtwangen University, course: Latin American Economy, language: English, abstract: [...] In the first part socio-cultural background of indigenous people is reviewed. The ethnically diverse
Ecuadorian society is analyzed as well as the representation of indigenous people in it. In the
second part of the paper the socio-economic profile of indigenous people is analyzed in terms of
the degree of poverty and labor market participation. The indigenous people labour market
participation is viewed in terms of occupation and sectors; and determinants of employment. In the
following part government policies and programmes are seen at more historical view through the
development and integration of indigenous people in the Ecuadorian society. In the last part the
levels of social organization are analyzed with the inclusion of social networks, which plays an
important role for the indigenous people¿s employment.