'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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... Leonarda was in charge . We were admonished by Baltazar and Teresa as they left to put the six young chickens back in their pen for the night and the ladder across the gate , and then they set out , Baltazar on his horse . As soon as ...
... Leonarda and Jaime , pasturing the cattle in the little fenced meadow just above this refuge , and , not in a mood to tolerate anyone's company but knowing that it wasn't fair to take it out on them , endured their seldom - peaceful ...
... Leonarda and Sebastiana eagerly handled the aprons and petticoats , Leonarda casting pleading looks toward her father , who ignored them . I bought a packet of twenty - five Chinese needles , the last of my good English steel needles ...