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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... told in this book, itself, will make clear how much we owe them. And I wish to express my appreciation to the National Science Foundation and Colgate University for supporting Gary's research in Peru, which support afforded me, too, the ...
... told Daniel we would be back the day before, so it was no wonder there was no one there. We sat down to wait, and waited alone for most of the day, shifting from the sun to the shade and back again when one and then the other became ...
... told Gary last year that six or seven years ago — eight now, I guess — a 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 ...
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