'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village

'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village
by Julia Meyerson

'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village
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Author: Julia Meyerson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990
ISBN: 0292780788
Number of pages: 297
Publisher: University of Texas Press

Book Reviews of 'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village

Book Review: Interesting both as a travel memoir and an anthropological study
Summary: 4 Stars

I purchased this book after returning from traveling in Peru, wanting to get more of a perspective on the daily lives of villagers that I had only glimpsed from the window of a tourist van. I was mostly satisfied with the level of detail provided by the author - she is honest both about her own misconceptions and missteps, and those of the campesinos whom she lived with for one year. The narrative is told in the present tense, as though we are living through the events with her, and she tries to capture what she was thinking and feeling at each moment that significant events occur. This is a bit more detailed than your average travel book, and probably a lot less technical than your average anthropological text. For me it was a good balance.

Summary of 'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village

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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