With the Saraguros : The Blended Life in a Transnational World /

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"The first humanistic portrait of life among southern Ecuador's Saraguros, this work includes a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist, the role of cross-cultural understanding in the Andean Highlands and beyond, and the meaning of the good life in different...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Syring, David, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Globalization > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Saraguros (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Saraguros (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Globalization > Social aspects > Ecuador > Saraguro Region.
Saraguro Indians > Ethnic identity.
Saraguro Indians > Social life and customs.
Ecuador > Saraguro.
Saraguro (Ecuador) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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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