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Author Blankenship, Judy, 1941-

Title Our house in the clouds : building a second life in the Andes of Ecuador / Judy Blankenship.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
©2013

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Louann Atkins Temple women and culture series ; book 31
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 31.
Contents ""Where we are"" by Gerald Locklin; Introduction; Part One; 1. Planting a Tree for Plinio; 2. On Becoming Property Owners in Ecuador; 3. How Much Will All This Cost?; 4. Construction Begins, Poco a Poco; 5. "You're Going to Live Here?"; 6. The Lives of the Workers; 7. Carnival: Sins and Repentance, Abundance and Reciprocity; 8. Sticks and Stones, Mud and Horse Manure; 9. We Become Padrinos ... Again; 10. Strike!; 11. Putting Out Fires; 12. Personae non Gratae in Ecuador: (or) Why We Went to Peru Last Week; 13. On Becoming Residents of a Foreign Country: (or) "Just Go Get Married Again!"
14. Leaving CañarPart Two; 15. The Return; 16. On This Day a Year Ago; 17. Reality Sets In; 18. The Devil Is in the Details; 19. A Short History of This Place; 20. Moving Day; 21. The Wasipichana; 22. The Mysteries of the New House and a Mother's Visit; 23. Mama Michi, Curandera; 24. Coming Home to Cañar; 25. Neighbors and Fences; 26. La Uyanza: A Gift of Sustenance; 27. Life in Town; 28. Living in Two Worlds; 29. Epilogue: What on Earth Are We Doing Here?; Acknowledgments.
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Subject Blankenship, Judy, 1941-
Blankenship, Judy, 1941-
Americans -- Ecuador -- Biography.
Americans.
Ecuador.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Community life -- Ecuador -- Cañar (Province)
Ecuador -- Cañar (Province)
Cañar (Ecuador : Province) -- Description and travel.
Cañar (Ecuador : Province) -- Social life and customs.
Community life.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Blankenship, Judy, 1941- Our house in the clouds. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2013 9780292739031 (DLC) 2012025778 (OCoLC)798923724
ISBN 0292739044 (electronic book)
9780292739048 (electronic book)
9780292739048
9780292739031 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780292745278 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0292739036
0292745273