CULTURE OF ECUADOR

CULTURE OF ECUADOR EN POPULAR CULTURE

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• To appreciate the cultures of Ecuador through the study of their origin, location and most outstanding features.
• Discuss the characteristics, complexities and possibilities of the Ecuadorian "national culture“

agenda

• Diversity of Cultures of Ecuador
• Mestizos, Indigenous, and Black or Africa-descendants cultures.
• Migrants Descendants
• Regional Cultures
• The national culture

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• Root
• Popular Art
• Popular Holidays
• Popular food
• The myths and the legends
• Popular Medicine
• Religiouness

culture

Culture is the people's way of life and the social groups. Big cultural groups of Ecuador are: 1. Mestizos 2. Indigenous 3. Blacks or African-descendants

1. Mestizos

Majority of the population of Ecuador.

Product of the European, indigenous, and afro cultural meeting

Values come from Europeans, indigenous, or Afro-Ecuadorians -- Original

Pasillo = Spanish and Indigenous influences

The indigenous

• Ancient human group
• 10 - 20 thousand years
• Ecuadorian indigenous are diverse from mestizos and Afro-Ecuadorians

• 10 indigenous languages
• Preservance of culture through resistance.

African-descendants

They have lived in Ecuador since colonial times.

Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Guayas, Carchi, and Pichincha.

They are victims of poverty and exclusion.

Presence, especially in the music, sports, and literature

migrant's descendants

Contribution of groups of people who were migrants.Colombia and Perú

19th and 20th-century influence of European and Asian migrants

Immigration to other countries of Europe or the United States

regional cultures

Montubios: farmers from the coast. Chagras: rural mestizos of the Andean region.

Every region and province has its own way of speaking, food, festivities, customs, and social organization.

the national culture

• Flag, the coat of arms, and the anthem
• Forms of speaking Spanish
• Food
• Customs
• Ecuador is a country of diversities

POPULAR CULTURE

crafts, foods, myths and legends, languages and dialects, medicines, religions

ROOTS: Ecuadorian popular culture; it means “expression of our identity”.

popular art

Popular art = Diverse and richExamples:

• Panama Hat
• Embroidery of Zuleta
• Figuras de Mazapan
• Ceramic Figures of Azuay,

POPULAR HOLIDAYSPopular holidays are related to:

• The cycles of sowing and harvesting.
• Civic dates
• Sacred history and the rituals related to the Church

Popular festivals are celebrated with variations.

popular food

The variety and the different ways of eating are other expressions of our diversity.

THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS

• Stories and practices that are maintained in popular memory.
• Transmitted orally from the elderly
• to the young,

Origins of families and peoples, to diseases and ways to cure them, fears of imaginary characters

POPULAR MEDICINE

Use of natural and magical elements for the healing of physical and spiritual illnesses.

Andean Region

Coast

The tsáchilas and chachis

“mal de ojo” and “mal aire”

The Amazon

The shaman is called curaca.

RELIGIOUSNESS

People have devotion to different saints and virgins.

Blessed women who have been elevated to the altars as saints

There are other popular devotions, such as “Hermano Gregorio” and “El Divino Niño”

Growth of evangelical denominations