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David Syring - With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World - 9781477309810 - V9781477309810
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With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World

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Description for With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World Paperback. Num Pages: 181 pages, 16 color and 43 b&w photos, 2 b&w maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 681.

Highlighting globalization’s effects on humanity through the lens of Ecuador’s indigenous Saraguro people, With the Saraguros marks a compelling departure from conventional approaches to ethnography. While documenting and exploring the social patterns among the Saraguro, with an emphasis on the role of women beadworkers, David Syring blends storytelling, dialogue, poetry, and memoir to describe his own realm as a fieldworker in anthropology. As he considers the influence of women’s labor in a community in which the artistry of beadwork is richly symbolic, he also considers how the Saraguro view their observers—the anthropologists.

Probing the role of researchers in a time when ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
181
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477309810
SKU
V9781477309810
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Syring
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 ... Read more

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