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001 2014015483
003 DLC
005 20150607074103.0
008 140729s2014 txuab b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014015483
020 $a9780292760936 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aF3722.1.S37$bS97 2014
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084 $aSOC002010$aHIS033000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSyring, David,$d1967-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWith the Saraguros :$bthe blended life in a transnational world /$cDavid Syring.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2014.
300 $aix, 161 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The first humanistic portrait of life among southern Ecuador's Saraguros, this work includes a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist, the role of cross-cultural understanding in the Andean Highlands and beyond, and the meaning of the good life in different cultural contexts; it further considers how contemporary globalization shapes people's lives and thought"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aSaraguro Indians$xSocial life and customs
650 0 $aSaraguro Indians$xEthinic identity.
651 0 $aSaraguro Region (Ecuador)$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aGlobalization$xSocial aspects$zEcuador$zSaraguro Region.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Latin America / South America.$2bisacsh