On an evening in the summer of 2009, I was picked up by Norberto, a friend I had met during ethnographic fieldwork in Cuenca, Ecuador. Since it was my first time in his truck, Norberto showed me how he drove solely with his hands by braking and accelerating with his thumbs through the steering wheel. “Mira (Look), I don’t …
“The Chair is Our Feet:” Imagining Habitable Worlds in Highland Ecuador
This article is part of the series: Inhabitable Worlds