'Tambo: Life in an Andean VillagePerhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork. Though sometimes overwhelmed by the differences between Quechua and North American culture, she still sought eagerly to understand the lifeways of 'Tambo and to find her place in the village. Her vivid observations, recorded in this field journal, admirably follow Henry James's advice: "Try to be one of the people upon whom nothing is lost." With an artist's eye, Meyerson records the daily life of 'Tambo—the cycles of planting and harvest, the round of religious and cultural festivals, her tentative beginnings of friendship and understanding with the Tambinos. The journal charts her progress from tolerated outsider to accepted friend as she and her husband learn and earn, the roles of daughter and son in their adopted family. With its wealth of ethnographic detail, especially concerning the lives of Andean women, 'Tambo will have great value for students of Latin American anthropology. In addition, scholars preparing to do fieldwork anywhere will find it a realistic account of both the hardships and the rewards of such study. |
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... Puerto Maldonado , down in the jungle to the east where he had been working for three months in the logging camps or the gold mines , just before we first arrived here . He seems to spend most of his time now with other young men of the ...
... Puerto Maldonado . Late that night , long after we had closed the door , Baltazar came in to talk , very frankly , he said — said it over and over again , in fact — about how important it was that Gary show his papers to the local ...
... Puerto Maldonado , where Hugo had worked . They also mention Lima : Daniel's eldest brother , Jesús , and his family are there . But it is unlikely that Daniel has gone to Lima : he only had two thousand soles , scarcely two dollars ...