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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... Cusco 143 15. Easter 149 16. Harvesting early potatoes 154 17. Cruz Velakuy 166 1 8. Potato and barley harvests 173 19. Corn harvest 180 20. Weaving 184 zi. San Juan, threshing 189 22. San Pedro, weaving 197 23. Gary's birthday, the ...
... Cusco in 1981 and 1982, Jean- Jacques for his warm and caring companionship and help, both in Cusco and in the field in 1987 and 1988, and for his reading and comments on the manuscript, and both of them for their support of my own ...
... Cusco, preparing to live for a year in a Quechua village and finding it extraordinarily difficult to "prepare" for something of which I could scarcely conceive. (Since then, I have learned that you can seldom really prepare yourself for ...
... CUSCO. Dear Elizabeth, I am reading Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, which is very nice to read here because the Paris that he writes about seems in character very much like Cusco is now, except that Cusco doesn't have the money that Paris ...
... Cusco in four days, including a Sunday; Gary got one from New York last week in three days. The first ones we got here took about ten days, and mail has been known to take three to six weeks. Sometimes packages get through, sometimes ...