TY  - BOOK
AU  - Syring,David
TI  - With the Saraguros: the blended life in a transnational world 
SN  - 9780292760943
AV  - F3722 .W584 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Austin, TX
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Saraguro Indians
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Saraguro Region
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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