Description
Book SynopsisThe daily life of an Andean village, as seen by an American visitor.
Trade Review"Meyerson, an artist by training, has delightfully and unexpectedly provided the single best description of what actual ethnographic fieldwork is like." Choice "I recommend this book to professionals, who rarely capture the essence and emotions of their subjects in their writings; to graduate and undergraduate anthropology students, for the lessons it gives in writing for a general audience; and, to that general audience, who will learn not only about life in 'Tambo, but how anthropology is practiced." Science Books and Films
Table of 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 Andrés, 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. Cornharvest
- 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
