Today's lecture drawn from:

Development in Spite of Itself: the Saraguro case by Linda Smith Belote and Jim Belote
published in Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador
Norman E. Whitten, Jr. editor University of Illinois Press, 1981

Key players:

• indigenous Saraguro people
  
• Roman Catholic priest
• Protestant Medical Missionaries
• Andean Mission (UN development agency)
• Peace Corps volunteers

Projects introduced by the Andean Mission that were successful:

• community meetings
• treadle sewing machines
• some vegetable crops

How do we know these were successful?

Projects introduced by the Andean Mission that were not successful:

• introducing merino sheep
• straw stuffed mattresses
• house painting
• furniture making
• hybrid seeds
• purebred cattle
• many others

Why weren't these successful?

Project sought by Saraguro people, rejected by the Andean Mission: potable water piped to their homes

Why was this rejected?

Why did the Andean Mission decide to leave?

Why did the Saraguros not let them?

Why the title?