'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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... once to ' Tambo where we will be working , once to Misminay where Gary lived before , and the better I know Cusco and each time we return from the villages where people still live as they always have for hundreds and hundreds of years ...
... once again completely official by getting new passports to replace our stolen ones . Our only " official " form of identification for the last two months has been the police denuncia which records the numbers of our lost passports but ...
... once for a month and a half during the summer and once for just a week or so when Gary had attended a conference in Bogotá , Colombia ; and Gary had been back to Peru once with a group of students from the university , a few of whom ...