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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Prologue. Advice to a Technopelli
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. 1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork
  2. pp. 9-18
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  1. Interlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli
  2. pp. 19-24
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  1. 2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context
  2. pp. 25-36
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  1. 3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society
  2. pp. 37-66
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  1. Interlude 2. A House in Three Different Times
  2. pp. 67-72
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  1. 4. Weaving la Vida Matizada Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’s Lives
  2. pp. 73-96
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  1. Interlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas
  2. pp. 97-106
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  1. 5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures
  2. pp. 107-126
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  1. Interlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Acc idental Business Consultant
  2. pp. 127-134
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  1. 6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness
  2. pp. 135-148
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  1. Epilogue. A Story for a Technopelli’s Last Hour in Town
  2. pp. 149-150
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  1. References
  2. pp. 151-158
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 159-161
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