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Download or read book Cañar written by Judy Blankenship and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist Judy Blankenship spent several years in Cañar, Ecuador, photographing the local people in their daily lives and conducting photography workshops to enable them to preserve their own visions of their culture. In this engaging book, Blankenship combines her sensitively observed photographs with an inviting text to tell the story of the most recent year she and her husband Michael spent living and working among the people of Cañar. Very much a personal account of a community undergoing change, Cañar documents such activities as plantings and harvests, religious processions, a traditional wedding, healing ceremonies, a death and funeral, and a home birth with a native midwife. Along the way, Blankenship describes how she and Michael went from being outsiders only warily accepted in the community to becoming neighbors and even godparents to some of the local children. She also explains how outside forces, from Ecuador's failing economy to globalization, are disrupting the traditional lifeways of the Cañari as economic migration virtually empties highland communities of young people. Blankenship's words and photographs create a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries.
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Book Synopsis Our House in the Clouds by : Judy Blankenship
Download or read book Our House in the Clouds written by Judy Blankenship and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous community they came to know in the early nineties when Blankenship taught photography there. They are the only extranjeros (outsiders) in this homely, chilly town at 10,100 feet, where every afternoon a spectacular mass of clouds rolls up from the river valley below and envelopes the town. In this absorbing memoir, Blankenship tells the interwoven stories of building their house in the clouds and strengthening their ties to the community. Although she and Michael had spent considerable time in Cañar before deciding to move there, they still had much to learn about local customs as they navigated the process of building a house with traditional materials using a local architect and craftspeople. Likewise, fulfilling their obligations as neighbors in a community based on reciprocity presented its own challenges and rewards. Blankenship writes vividly of the rituals of births, baptisms, marriages, festival days, and deaths that counterpoint her and Michael’s solitary pursuits of reading, writing, listening to opera, playing chess, and cooking. Their story will appeal to anyone contemplating a second life, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of daily life in the developing world.
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Download or read book Collective Volume of Scientific Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Famous Alvarado Collection by : Jesús Alvarado Hidalgo
Download or read book The Famous Alvarado Collection written by Jesús Alvarado Hidalgo and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Milwaukee County by : Jerome A. Watrous
Download or read book Memoirs of Milwaukee County written by Jerome A. Watrous and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Milwaukee County written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index Kewensis by : B. Daydon Jackson
Download or read book Index Kewensis written by B. Daydon Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties, Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autism and Me written by Ouisie Shapiro and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you see a kid with autism on the street, don't yell at her if she's doing something wrong. She can't help it. Autism is really challenging, explains Christian, who tells about life with his sister, Mary Gwen, a beautiful girl who loves to swim. In these moving essays, Christian and many other kids tell what it's like to live with siblings who have autism. Sometimes they can't talk much. Sometimes they have tantrums. It can be tough for a family, but there are happy surprises, too. "Autism has helped us to become a better family," adds Christian. "It teaches us patience and understanding."
Book Synopsis How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? by : Steve Jenkins
Download or read book How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.
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Book Synopsis 8. Beitrag zur Fauna und Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln by : Wolfram Lobin
Download or read book 8. Beitrag zur Fauna und Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln written by Wolfram Lobin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tropical Secrets by : Margarita Engle
Download or read book Tropical Secrets written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .
Book Synopsis Costume and History in Highland Ecuador by : Ann Pollard Rowe
Download or read book Costume and History in Highland Ecuador written by Ann Pollard Rowe and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes—women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats—instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent vintage than might be expected.
Book Synopsis First[-seventh] Semi-annual Report of the Bank Examiner on the Condition of the State and Private Banks by : Wisconsin. Banking Department
Download or read book First[-seventh] Semi-annual Report of the Bank Examiner on the Condition of the State and Private Banks written by Wisconsin. Banking Department and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Wisconsin. Banking Department
Download or read book Annual Report written by Wisconsin. Banking Department and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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