Lines in the water : nature and culture at Lake Titicaca / Ben Orlove.
This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Summary: | This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| ISBN: | 9780520935891 0520935896 0585468486 9780585468488 1597347167 9781597347167 1282355112 9781282355118 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |