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With the Saraguros : the blended life in a transnational world / David Syring.

Title
With the Saraguros : the blended life in a transnational world / David Syring.
Author
Syring, David, 1967-
Publication
Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.

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ix, 161 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--
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Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Globalization > Social aspects > Saraguro Region
  • HISTORY / Latin America / South America
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  • Saraguro Indians > Ethinic identity
  • Saraguro Indians > Ethnic identity
  • Saraguro Indians > Social life and customs
  • Saraguro Region (Ecuador) > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780292760936
  • 0292760930
LCCN
^^2014015483
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library