{"product_id":"with-the-saraguros-the-blended-life-in-a-transnational-world-paperback-softback-9781477309810","title":"With the Saraguros; The Blended Life in a Transnational World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477309810","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWith the Saraguros\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Blended Life in a Transnational World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Syring (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477309810, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e181 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.2 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting globalization’s effects on humanity through the lens of Ecuador’s indigenous Saraguro people, \u003ci\u003eWith the Saraguros\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProbing the role of researchers in a time when basic humanistic questions now often reflect a critical balance between commerce and sustainability, \u003ci\u003eWith the Saraguros\u003c\/i\u003e asks, “What does it mean to live ‘the good life’ in different cultural contexts, and how does our work life relate to this pursuit?” For those who have chosen a work life of anthropology, Syring captures the impact of fieldwork-which uproots the researcher from his or her daily routine-and its potential to deliver new levels of consciousness. The result constitutes more than just the first English-language book dedicated to the dynamic creativity of the Saraguro, contextualized by their social and political history; Syring’s work, which ranges from the ecological imagination to the metaphors of trade, is also a profound meditation on the ways we experience boundaries now that borders no longer create sharply drawn divides between cultural worlds, and “distant” no longer means “separate.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue: Advice to a Technopelli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude 2. A House in Three Different Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’\u003cbr\u003es Lives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: A Story for a Technopelli’\u003cbr\u003es Last Hour in Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523345543448,"sku":"9781477309810","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/with-the-saraguros-the-blended-life-in-a-transnational-world-paperback-softback-9781477309810","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}