'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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... plaza , where there are a few little shops in a row along one side . At the end of the plaza is the concejo ( town hall ) , a large and impressive building of two stories with glass - paned windows and a red - tiled roof , painted ...
... plaza . The first game was interrupted by the beginning of the bullfight or , rather , by several horsemen who rode up impressively , followed by a band , which seemed to us to portend something . The horsemen rode diagonally across the ...
... plaza with a real purpose : we were going to dye some of the wool for my scarf and needed the acidic juice of lemons to fix the dye . There is a regular trade now on the plaza , with two or three trucks arriving each day , the shops ...