Cañar : : A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador / / Judy Blankenship.
Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Old Friends
- Chapter Two: Killa Raymi: Festival of the Moon
- Chapter Three: A House in Cañar
- Chapter Four: The Day of the Dead
- Chapter Five: La Limpieza
- Chapter Six: A Dinner to Honor the Dead, and Us
- Chapter Seven: The Meeting
- Chapter Eight: Greeting the New Year
- Chapter Nine: Life in Cañar at Three Months
- Chapter Ten: Día de San Antonio
- Chapter Eleven: This Camera Pleases Me
- Chapter Twelve: The New Economy
- Chapter Thirteen: A Death in Cañar
- Chapter Fourteen: Carnaval
- Chapter Fifteen: Betrothal, Cañari Style
- Chapter Sixteen: Life in Cañar at Six Months
- Chapter Seventeen: A Wedding
- Chapter Eighteen: Mama Michi Goes to Canada
- Chapter Nineteen: The Way Things Work
- Chapter Twenty: A Birth in Cañar
- Chapter Twenty-One: We Walk the Inca Trail
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Saying Good-bye