'Tambo : life in an Andean village
Publisher description: Perhaps 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."
Print Book, English, 1990
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990
Tambo
xv, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780292780774, 9780292780781, 029278077X, 0292780788
19921297
Introduction: The beginning
Natividad
Corn planting
San Miguel and the anniversary of the district
Todos Santos
Corn planting
My birthday
San Andres, barley planting
Virgen Concebidayoq
Interlude: Return to 'Tambo
Cleaning the wheat field
Carnaval
Puna yapuy
Teresa comes to Cusco
Easter
Harvesting early potatoes
Cruz Velakuy
Potato and barley harvests
Corn harvest
Weaving
San Juan, threshing
San Pedro, weaving
Gary's birthday, the Fiestas Patrias, Hugo's house
Mamacha Asunta
The brewery
Sonqo
Natividad again
Epilogue: 1988
Glossary
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