With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World
Autor David Syringen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2014
Probing the role of researchers in a time when basic humanistic questions now often reflect a critical balance between commerce and sustainability, With the Saraguros asks, “What does it mean to live ‘the good life’ in different cultural contexts, and how does our work life relate to this pursuit?” For those who have chosen a work life of anthropology, Syring captures the impact of fieldwork—which uproots the researcher from his or her daily routine—and its potential to deliver new levels of consciousness. The result constitutes more than just the first English-language book dedicated to the dynamic creativity of the Saraguro, contextualized by their social and political history; Syring’s work, which ranges from the ecological imagination to the metaphors of trade, is also a profound meditation on the ways we experience boundaries now that borders no longer create sharply drawn divides between cultural worlds, and “distant” no longer means “separate.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477309810
ISBN-10: 1477309810
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477309810
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
DAVID SYRING is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His previous book, Places in the World a Person Could Walk: Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. The documentary film he created with Manuel Benigno Cango and the Saraguro women’s craft cooperative La Teresa de Calcuta, released in 2014, is part of a series of participatory media projects with Saraguro collaborators.
Cuprins
- 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
Descriere
The first humanistic portrait of life among the Saraguros of southern Ecuador is woven with a meditative self-reflection on the author’s role as anthropologist and the role of cross-cultural understanding itself in the Andean Highlands and beyond.