'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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... soup and you send him back home with a bowl of your own soup . Juana even sent Jaime over with a little covered pail of chicken soup . But Teresa had no chicha to serve to her guests , so Gary and I bought a bottle of trago for her to ...
... soups , one after the other , and finally the homenta , several apiece . They were unwrapped and laid on their husks before the fire to dry slightly and were sticky and faintly sweet , the cheese melted inside . A bowl of each soup was ...
... soup of meat broth and potatoes , and Gary bought a bottle of trago from the store of one of the visitors , a man named Crisólogo . We had letters and photographs for some of the men . We all admired the pic- tures , and I read a couple ...