Description
Book SynopsisThe 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
