'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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... ground tarwi beans in the food mill , a bucketful , and Teresa cooked mot'e and potatoes and made uchukuta , a very hot sauce of ground dried ají pep- pers and onion and piquant herbs , and we peeled and cut onions and car- rots into ...
... ground with some corn into a flour , then mixed with a little sugar and water or chicha to make a slightly moist meal which sticks together in clumps which are eaten with the fingers . The sugar and chicha enhance the natural sweetness ...
... ground again . We finally persuaded her to trade some already - ground flour for ours , because we couldn't wait for her son to return on Monday to re - mill it , and started back after sharing a plate of food and mot'e , and several ...