Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is
to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such
stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her
husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork. Though sometimes
overwhelmed by the differences between Quechua and North American
culture, she still sought eagerly to understand the lifeways of
'Tambo and to find her place in the village. Her vivid
observations, recorded in this field journal, admirably follow
Henry James's advice: "Try to be one of the people upon whom
nothing is lost."
With an artist's eye, Meyerson records the daily life of
'Tambo--the cycles of planting and harvest, the round of religious
and cultural festivals, her tentative beginnings of friendship and
understanding with the Tambinos. The journal charts her progress
from tolerated outsider to accepted friend as she and her husband
learn and earn, the roles of daughter and son in their adopted
family.
With its wealth of ethnographic detail, especially concerning
the lives of Andean women, 'Tambo will have great value for
students of Latin American anthropology. In addition, scholars
preparing to do fieldwork anywhere will find it a realistic account
of both the hardships and the rewards of such study.
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