With the Saraguros
Subtitle: the blended life in a transnational world
By: David Syring
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781477309810
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social life and customs; Globalization; Saraguro Indians; Ethinic identity
Description: "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 cultural contexts; it further considers how contemporary globalization shapes people's lives and thought"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Advice to a Technopelli; title: chapter 1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork; title: Interlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli; title: chapter 2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context; title: chapter 3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society; title: Interlude 2. A House in Three Different Times; title: chapter 4. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women's Lives; title: Interlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas; title: chapter 5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures; title: Interlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant; title: chapter 6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness; title: Epilogue: A Story for a Technopelli & 's Last Hour in Town.