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'Tambo, Life in an Andean Village

'Tambo, Life in an Andean Village

by Julia Meyerson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 297 PAGES

A field journal, ethnographic in its detail, of an American artist's year in the Peruvian Andes with her anthropologist husband. Particularly interested in the role of women in Quechua culture, Meyerson spent time doing women's work, cooking and serving food, tending the house, children, and animals, while her husband worked with the men in the fields.  (PRU38, $30.00)


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