'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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... simply don't make sense here . I thought about this the other day , as we were preparing food to take to the men ... simply decide that the result wasn't worth that much time and effort and would simply do without . Here , there are no ...
... simply didn't want us to go . But Celestina confirmed it , and all we could do was accept it as true . We went back to our house , unlocked the door , unpacked the things we'd been going to take with us - raincoats and books for a wait ...
... simply nothing else for them to offer to us to dem- onstrate their hospitality , nothing that would simply quench thirst and not make you eventually crazy - Gary and I slipped away , back to Alcides ' house , to sleep until Luisa and ...