'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." |
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When they finished they began again to serve chicha , first to us , the women , in
thanks , and Teresa filled their bottle with trago from the jug we had brought and
they served this as well , giving each woman two copitas before serving ...
When they finished they began again to serve chicha , first to us , the women , in
thanks , and Teresa filled their bottle with trago from the jug we had brought and
they served this as well , giving each woman two copitas before serving ...
Page 117
We waited while they ate and then while they finished Baltazar ' s field and hoed
a small one of Ricardo ' s nearby . Hallmay is done with lampas ( the crooked
hoes with broad spade - like blades ) ; the earth in the furrows between the rows
of ...
We waited while they ate and then while they finished Baltazar ' s field and hoed
a small one of Ricardo ' s nearby . Hallmay is done with lampas ( the crooked
hoes with broad spade - like blades ) ; the earth in the furrows between the rows
of ...
Page 197
Baltazar had proposed that I finish the scarf by the festival of San Pedro on the
twenty - ninth of June so Gary could ... and that I was making a scarf for Gary to
wear for San Pedro , adding , always , that he could have finished it in one day .
Baltazar had proposed that I finish the scarf by the festival of San Pedro on the
twenty - ninth of June so Gary could ... and that I was making a scarf for Gary to
wear for San Pedro , adding , always , that he could have finished it in one day .
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afternoon Andrés arrived asked ayllu Baltazar Baltazar and Teresa began bottle boys bread bring brought called carrying celebration Celestina chicha church cloth cooked corn couple cross Cusco dance Daniel dark door drinking early earth face feel felt festival field finally finished followed front Gary gathered gave gone grain ground hands horse Hugo Juana kitchen knew land later learned leave Leonarda lives looked morning never night offered once planting playing plaza potatoes Quechua rest returned Ricardo road Sebastiana seemed served side simply sitting skirt standing stood stopped street talk Tambo Teresa things thought told took trago truck turned usually village waited walked wall wanted watched weaving woman women yard young
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| Title | 'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Author | Julia Meyerson |
| Contributors | American Council of Learned Societies, University of Texas |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 31 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 029278077X, 9780292780774 |
| Length | 265 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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