| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Saraguro Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Saraguro Indians. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Saraguro Indians -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Saraguro (Ecuador) -- Social life and customs.
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- Ecuador -- Saraguro Region.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Ecuador. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. |
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Ecuador -- Saraguro. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Syring, David, 1967- With the Saraguros. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014 9780292760936 (DLC) 2014015483 (OCoLC)876882896 |
| ISBN |
9780292760943 (electronic book) |
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0292760949 (electronic book) |
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9780292760936 (hardback) |
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0292760930 (hardback) |
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