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.
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.
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