'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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... weaving - by now it had also been revealed that I wanted to learn to weave - a brightly colored piece in reds and greens and white on a backstrap loom : the warp of a piece of weaving can be rolled up around the wooden supports of the ...
... weaving now and said yes , she was weaving a carrying cloth , a lliqlla , and that she would probably weave today ; weaving requires good weather - it is out- door work , so that there will be enough light to see by to weave the intri ...
... weaving on Friday , the day that Walaychu came home and after the commotion of the festival had ended - I found that Hugo had taken the ropes by which the ... weaving , the scarf was only three - quarters completed SAN PEDRO , WEAVING 199.