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Article: Peter Wogan Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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- January 1, 2006
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Peter Wogan Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004, ix + 175 pp.
Unique circumstances that involve Peter Wogan personally in circles of witchcraft and practices of magical writing lead the author down an enthralling path of ethnographic discovery. Wogan conducts his research among Salasacas (Salasacans), one of several groups of indigenous people in Andean Ecuador. Magical Writing in Salasaca begins with Wogan's discovery that his name has been written in a death book overseen by Catholic Saint, Gonzalo. San Gonzalo is the patron saint of the Church in the capital of Tungurahua Province, Ambato, ...