'Tambo : : Life in an Andean Village / / Julia Meyerson.
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 differ...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of 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