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The first humanistic portrait of life among the Saraguros of southern Ecuador is woven with a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist and the role of cross-cultural understanding itself in the Andean Highlands and beyond.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Advice to a Technopelli
  • 1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork
  • Interlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli
  • 2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context
  • 3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society
  • Interlude 2. A House in Three Different Times
  • 4. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’s Lives
  • Interlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas
  • 5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures
  • Interlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant
  • 6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness
  • Epilogue: A Story for a Technopelli’s Last Hour in Town
  • References
  • Index

With the Saraguros

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 10/12/2014
      ISBN13: 9781477309810, 978-1477309810
      ISBN10: 1477309810
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first humanistic portrait of life among the Saraguros of southern Ecuador is woven with a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist and the role of cross-cultural understanding itself in the Andean Highlands and beyond.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Prologue: Advice to a Technopelli
      • 1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork
      • Interlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli
      • 2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context
      • 3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society
      • Interlude 2. A House in Three Different Times
      • 4. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’s Lives
      • Interlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas
      • 5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures
      • Interlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant
      • 6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness
      • Epilogue: A Story for a Technopelli’s Last Hour in Town
      • References
      • Index

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