'Tambo : Life in an Andean Village / Julia Meyerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyerson, Julia, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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." 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The beginning

2. Natividad

3. Corn planting

4. San Miguel and the anniversary of the district

5. Todos Santos

6. Corn planting

7. My birthday

8. San Andres, barley planting

9. Virgen Concebidayoq

Interlude

10. Return to 'Tambo

11. Cleaning the wheat field

12. Carnaval

13. Puna yapuy

14. Teresa comes to Cusco

15. Easter

16. Harvesting early potatoes

17. Cruz Velakuy

18. Potato and barley harvests

19. Corn harvest

20. Weaving

21. San Juan, threshing

22. San Pedro, weaving

23. Gary`s birthday, the Fiestas Patrias, Hugo's house

24. Mamacha Asunta

25. The brewery

26. Sonqo

27. Natividad again

Epilogue: 1988

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

0-292-76342-5

OCLC:

1294424615