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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... horses with burdens of grain in huge sacks to be taken to Cusco on the truck, men with long wooden plows and sometimes a pair of bulls, children going to school — the schoolteacher had crossed the plaza at one end, blowing a whistle ...
... horse he was riding stumbled, throwing him to the ground beneath its hooves, and then fell on him, breaking his leg. The leg had healed firmly but had healed shorter than the other one, so that he walks now with a severe limp, with his ...
... horses) and llamas and coca leaves. Sometimes a little of the last of the dough was sweetened' with eggs and sugar. The little breads were carried out of the comedor on boards in complicated relays and thrust into the oven at just the ...
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