'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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... cloth , a pitcher of thick , sweet chicha called qonchu ( the dregs of the jar ) to leaven the bread , and chicha and some coca and some- times trago for Baltazar . Working in the comedor , Baltazar dumped the flour into a big metal tub ...
... cloth or a sheet of plastic , dampening it , and covering it with another cloth or sheet of plastic weighted by rocks . When it has sprouted , the corn is laid on a cloth in the sun day after day to dry , and then it is ground using the ...
... clothes . The bulls and toreros were from Yaurisque . With them when they came into the plaza came people carrying between them cords hung with small banners of rose and gold and white cloth and a couple of white T - shirts with ...