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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. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment.
The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable.
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Excellent.......2003-04-13
(Planeta.com Journal) -- Lines in the Water (University of California Press, 2002), a beautifully written ethnography of rural fishermen and their families. The book's subtitle "Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca" specifies the center of action, but the scope is much broader and deeper. It's actually hard to find the words to say how delightful this book is. Author Ben Orlove is an environmental science professor at the University of California, Davis, and his book is based on three decades of trips to Peru and Bolivia. The book is a showcase of fresh writing and a major contribution to the literature about South America. Orlove provides a frank account of the role academics themselves play. He includes himself in this story and shares candid observations -- from his reactions to office politics to daydreaming about museums. This book is highly recommended. Eco travelers visiting Lake Titicaca would do well to read this book in advance.
A gem of a cross-disciplinary book.......2003-02-24
This is a gem, written with great respect for the indigenous people who live aound Lake Titicaca, well-annotated and with wonderful photographs by the author. Orlove has broad interests - anthropology, economics, natural history, environmental issues, to name a few, and a talent for accessing interesting memories. He conveys his astute observations in clear and vivid prose.The book is organized nicely - I especially liked the material in the final chapter, entitled "Paths", which offers an antidote to the sad fact that roads and highways are so often destructive to local people and to biodiversity. Paths, literal or metaphorical, also provide valuable linkages and essential connections among the various components of this remote but very interesting and community with ancient roots. Orlove provides the reader with a sense of having traveled those paths for a short while with him.
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- Inaccurate measurements
- Good for knowledgeable Peruvian cooks
- Food of Peru is Better Than This Book
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The Exotic Kitchens of Peru: The Land of the Inca
Copeland Marks
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The first cookbook to assess Peruvian cooking, The Exotic Kitchens of Peru provides readers with not only sumptuous and unique recipes, but also a wonderfully detailed history of Peru. Whatever your tastes are, you are sure to discover many new favorite dishes in The Exotic Kitchens of Peru. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, and with a complete glossary of Peruvian culinary terms, this unique cookbook is a must-have for everyone from cookbook collectors to those seeking to learn more about the exotic Peruvian culture.
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Inaccurate measurements.......2004-08-31
A lot of Mark Copeland's measurements are incorrect! The sauces are runny, and most recipes do not taste authentic. Don't waste your time or money with this book.
Good for knowledgeable Peruvian cooks.......2001-11-19
This cookbook was a christmas gift from my peruvian husband. He has been pleasantly surprised by many of the regional recipes that can be found in this book. However, the author does leave elements of some recipes out..and he does have some ingredient amounts wrong. If you have a peruvian in the house or are familiar with peruvian cuisine I would recommend this book, we have thoroughly enjoyed many of the recipes..but only because we can catch many of the author's mistakes.
Food of Peru is Better Than This Book.......2000-07-16
I love Peruvian food, and have been to nearly every Peruvian restaurant in NYC. So, when this book came out, I was ecstatic. However, the cookbook is no good. I made several recipes several times, and they never came out tasting very good. For example Chupe de Camarones. I've had some awesome Peruvian shrimp soup in the restaurant. However, even though I got to know my local fishstore well in the process of making my own stock for the three attempts at this soup, and even though I tried the different version, the result was consistently dissappointing. I asked Peruvian friends I knew what they would recommend, and their spice suggestions were much better, plus they had more detailed advice about how long to cook the shrimp than the book. The book leaves out too much. Perhaps it is best seen as the first rough draft for a Peruvian cookbook in English. In the process of revising it, maybe it could get much better.
Exotic is true........2000-07-03
Aside from some difficulty in translating recipe names, which read in Spanish make the mouth water, the book offers many delicious recipes among the many more that the Peruvian cuisine offers. Missing from soup recipes from southern Perú is the touch of rocotto (dipped and then taken out)and the splash of lemon. For the best pisco sour try the Biondi pisco from Moquegua, and try to get the South American limes.
que lastima.......2000-04-28
I eagerly ordered this book, having lived in Peru and wanting to fine tune some of the recipies I had put together from various sources. What a disappointment! While the author touches upon most of the major "platillos Peruanos" he misses the essence and soul of Peruvian cooking. He forgets to sauce the lomito with vinegar or lemon juice the causa--and his seco which should be revoltingly sea green with cilantro boasts a paltry 20 sprigs. Lambert Ortiz is a better bet by far if you want the real thing in my opinion.
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The Snake with Golden Braids: Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation
Stephen G. Bunker
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The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses.
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The western Amazon is the last frontier, as wild a west as Earth has ever known. For thirty years David G. Campbell has been exploring this lush wilderness, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere at any time in the four-billion-year history of life on our planet. With great artistic flair, Campbell takes us with him as he travels to the town of Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon. Here he collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. They travel together even farther into the rainforest, set up camp, and survey every living woody plant in a land so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, has watched them grow from seedling to death. He also knows the people of the Amazon: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the mixed-blood Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. Campbell introduces us to two remarkable women, Dona Cabocla, a widow who raised six children on that lonely frontier, and Dona Ausira, A Nokini Native American who is the last speaker of her tribe's ages-old language. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them -- a land of ghosts.
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One month later Still waiting for the book.......2007-10-09
I wouldn't mind reviewing this book but I still haven't recieved it yet. It's now a month since you posted it, perhaps you could please chase it up. Thankyou
Paul Lightfoot
AMAZING TRAVEL AND SCIENCE WRITING ON THE AMAZON.......2006-09-08
Though there are many books that describe nature in the Amazon, David Campbell definitely is among the top writers on it. In this book he offers, from start to finish, a very interesting mix between storytelling with lyrical qualities and scientific analysis with social commentary.
He is a scientist, focused on botany, and his knowledge of all aspects of science related to the forest are outstanding. We learn about the strategies employed by frogs to reproduce, or by snakes to identify prey, or by trees to attach polen to beetles. While learning about the science behind such activities and how they evolved, the author leads the reader through his travel log, meeting people and species and learning much about the history of the region he is visiting.
Besides all the interesting science, the author also provides a very deep character description of the people who live in this remote frontier. The stories range from rubber tappers left over from a period of abundance, to old indians who became westernized, to occupants moving there from the south due to government incentives. Each has a story and a way to deal with the challenges of the forest; some have a way to prosper in the exact same circumstances in which others fail. Some characters are presented as integrated in the forest, some as aliens beaten by the forest, some as leaders beating the forest.
Most amazing than all the history, social aspects and science however are the narrative abilities of the author. The book is a work of art, as it becomes clear that every word has been hand picked and every metaphor was chosen to provide the reader with the correct image, texture, taste, sound and smell of the forest. Reading is an experience of immersion and is to be savoured as very few books provide such a deep experience. It becomes quite clear to anyone reading the book that the author has a deep connection with his subject, much beyond science.
This book is the very best description of the Amazon I have encountered, written with gusto. It is the kind of book you will wish you had written. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the region, in nature writing or in popular science.
Richly textured.......2005-07-14
This book delivered much more than I expected. The author is a scientist, not just a traveler. Each observation went several steps deeper into the biology and history than typical with this kind of book. The story was made much richer by these details.
It is true that the vocabulary was a bit advanced. However, I never bothered to check the dictionary, and it didn't hurt the narrative.
Highly recommended.
Excellent!.......2005-07-06
A Land of Ghosts is a splendid journey through Amazonian Brazil. Infused with enlightened historical, ecological, and anthropological perspective, Campbell stands alone in his ability to fuse eloquent science writing with a tale of adventure. At times haunting, this book reveals the deep causes of rainforest destruction in the region. However, this book presents these causes in a unique way, and, at least for me, marks a new style of conservation advocation. Indeed, a refreshing one. If you have any interest in tropical ecology, and like works by such authors as David Quammen or Tim Flannery you will love this brilliant work.
some good, some bad.......2005-06-03
The "good" is that there are some very interesting stories in the book. The "bad" is that, in my opinion, it rambles in some places, especially in the last half of the book. Another "bad" is that the author uses a lot of uncommon words that only someone with an incredible vocabulary would understant. Example: page 127 (picked at random)uses the words: Flummoxed, estivation, tropeiro, mealy, prehensile, transect, naunce, anthocyanins, cotyledoms, transect, bromeliads. Trying to get through that for over 200 pages was a workout for me. The author also uses meters and hectars, not feet and acres, so distances and area are hard to understand. In addition he uses a lot of Portuguese words. There is a Portuguese glossary in the back if you don't mind flipping back and forth while you read, which I don't take the time to do. The author is an excellent writer, too bad it is so difficult to read.
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Based on Enrique Mayer's 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer's most significant statements on Andean peasant economies from precolonial times to the present. As a result, The Articulated Peasant is noteworthy as a sustained examination of household economies through changing historical circumstances, while considering also the relationship of the environment to systems of land use and agricultural production, notably through "verticality models" of exchange between environmental zones. Though the volume stresses the Andean context, its relevancy is wider. It will resonate with people and organizations struggling with issues of development in Latin America or elsewhere where the units of production and consumption are largely household based.
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Essential reading for those in Andean studies........2005-07-16
Eight months of the year I live in Andes, in small farming community, three hours from Cusco, Peru. I sought-out this text to enrich my historical and ethnographical understanding of Peru, but after plowing through professor Mayer's erudite monograph on Andean peasant economies I came away with little practical knowledge that would help better understand the campesinas in my community.
That is not to say that Professor Mayer work is not valuable. The text provides a quantitative and empirical study of Andean households as economic agents, and for social science theorists, those in academia and upper division students of Andean studies `The Articulated Peasant' will be essential reading. There is a short Spanish/Quechua glossary, a good index and ample biography.
insightful and refreshing anthropology book.......2004-07-15
After reading countless amounts of history and background on certain issues in the Andes, I foudn this book to include new information and different views on highly debated issues. Very insightful and informative. A good anthro book!
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Francisco Pizarro And The Conquest Of The Inca (Explorers of New Lands)
Shane Mountjoy
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- Not easy reading, offers insight in understanding of Spanish evangelism.
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Lords of the land: Sugar, wine, and Jesuit estates of coastal Peru, 1600-1767
Nicholas P Cushner
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Not easy reading, offers insight in understanding of Spanish evangelism. .......2007-05-04
This history highlights the importance of religion in Spanish colonization. The Roman Catholic Church recognized the Society of Jesus, Jesuits, as a religious order in 1540. The Jesuits were different from other orders in that they did not have a specified purpose associated with their founding. A perceived need, based on a particular time and place, would lead them to their purpose. When the Jesuits arrived in Peru in 1568, they saw the need for education and set up colleges, universities and missions.
Nicholas P Cushner investigates how the Jesuits used their extensive holding earning income to support educational activities. It is an important point to emphasize that Jesuit farming was not a way of life, but a for-profit business.
Being latecomers to Peru, land was acquired not by grant, but from donations and endowments. Jesuit haciendas did not operate in competition with each other and they "were not administered by a central owner, but by each of the colleges or other institutions." (31) Because of their wealth, the Jesuits were able to be selective and could afford to buy quality land. Their organizational efficiency improved the haciendas which they acquired. Slaves were the largest group of laborers for the haciendas and vineyards.
Cushner made a considerable effort to analyze data to create a production and profit profile for the haciendas. He concludes that "the interrelated Jesuit system of reinvestment, the use of slave and salaried labor, the large-scale production for a market, is a clear example of the early development of agrarian capitalism." (132) However their success made them vulnerable to criticism from competing lay estate owners.
The Jesuits "were zealous, educated men who as Spaniards of their times believed that saving of the souls of the Indians was their primary responsibility." (137) They did this through education at colleges, not only located in Peru but also in other places throughout Latin America. A trade network developed between these economic centers. Again this engendered opposition from competing merchants. Resentment against the Jesuits culminated in their expulsion from Spanish domains in 1767.
Cushner used confiscated material from when the Jesuits were expelled as soutce material. This information is widely scattered however. Useful records of land purchases and previous owners were found at the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) in Mexico City. The Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) in Rome has economic data. Other references were found in the archives and libraries of Argentina, Peru, and Spain.
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Discover the ancient Inca culture with these fun games and activities!
Make an Inca tunic. Prepare a quinoa snack. Create a royal headdress. You'll have a great time exploring the cultural traditions of these fascinating people as you learn to write an Inca poem, sculpt your own clay portrait in the shape of an Inca jug, and test your bluffing skills as you play Perudo.
This book is filled with activities and projects that will show you how the ancient Inca people lived and played, as well as how they managed to create an empire that extended nearly 3,000 miles! You'll learn about the bravery of Inca warriors as you construct a war shield. You'll discover how the Inca created beautiful music with panpipes and dance bells-and you'll make them yourself! You'll get to prepare a tasty Inca dish called Andean stew. Plus, you'll find lots of amazing Inca facts on topics ranging from history and religion to language, metalworking, and art. So get ready for lots of fun as you discover the ancient secrets of The Inca.
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CLASS LOVED the CRAFTS & INCA history made easier.......2006-03-02
Crafts are great, easy to do! Easy to read book, easy directions. Drawing are vivid and helpful.
During Open School night my son's teacher stated that some cultures are hard to teach to a 2nd grade class. I offered my services when ever she needed help or a helpful idea. Matthew came home and said Ms. Rayes needed help with INCAS. Book arrived fast. A day later my son came home with a note. TEACHER LOVES THE BOOK, she raved about it! She has since passed her book onto other 2nd grade teachers who have since ordered their own copies.
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In 1911, a young historian set out on a quest that would later be regarded as one of the most important expeditions in the history of the National Geographic Society. With breathless enthusiasm and an unquenchable thirst for adventure, Hiram Bingham followed rumor after rumor in search of a lost city, through unspoiled mountain villages and the treacherous Peruvian highlands. An experienced traveler, Bingham thought nothing of riding mules along nearly inaccessible mountain paths and scaling steep mountainsides. But nothing could have prepared him for the moment when, after crossing a rope bridge suspended 2,000 feet above a raging river and climbing a harrowing precipice, he came upon stone-faced terraces climbing up a hillside, leading to a plaza with two temples. "The sight held me spellbound," declared Bingham at the sight of the once great city. He had found Machu Picchu.
Bingham's astonishing tale includes observations of ancient traditions and architecture as seen through the eyes of a young man fascinated by the archaeology, landscape, and history of Peru—a land and a people now lost in time. The incredible story of an amazing adventure, Inca Land is a thrilling chronicle of a legendary explorer's crowning discovery.
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Always the Unexpected.......2007-08-31
A trip through Peru nearly a century ago that is as compelling now as when Bingham wrote the book. We are always looking for something we know is 'out there'. Hiram Bingham not only found what he was searching for, but the added surprise experience of seeing the breath taking beauty of Macchu Picchu. The reader is not lost in the words on a page, but lost in the Sacred Valley, the spectacular mountains, the indigenous peoples and the wonder of explorers such as Bingham.
Reprint of earlier book?.......2007-07-09
This looks like a reprint of the original work by Bingham about his "discovery" of Machu Picchu. I read the original 40 years ago, and it sparked a lasting desire to go see this place for myself. I finally made it, and it is all I imagined it to be. If this is, indeed, a reprinting of Bingham's original expeditions, they are facinating period pieces full of the hardships of exploring before tourism, basic amenities, travel health care, much less maps. Machu Picchu was, of course, not lost to the Inca descendants, only to the White educated explorers from afar, so Bingham didn't really "discover" it, but he certainly publicized it and Yale helped!
VERY BAD. CAN NOT BE READ.......2007-02-11
The book is missprinted all around and can not be read
Sent back and a new one was swnt to me
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Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru
Hugo Blanco
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The land occupations and uprisings by peasants in the early 1960s, recounted by a central leader of the struggle in Peru.
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Only for those with specific interest.......2003-05-05
After the Spanish conquest of Peru noblemen (encomenderos) responsible for administering the land were granted the labor of an Indian community. Minor judicial officials (corregidores) were supposed to defend Indian rights. In practice, the encomenderos and corregidores, and later the mestizos seized the lands. They indentured the Indians as tenant farmers, sold them into slave labor, or drove them out of the fertile river valleys into the mountains. By 1964, 200 years of Spanish rule had cut the Quechua population in half and the large landholders (gamonales or hacendados) that constituted only one percent of Peruvian farmers held 62% of the land.
Peasant land invasions in the sierra began in 1952; the first peasant union (sindicato) was formed in 1957. The formation of sindicatos, peasant strikes, and land invasions in the sierra continued through the 1960ýs and marginally improved the peasant condition. (Ibid.)
In 1958, the charismatic Hugo Blanco, a Quechua Trotskyite educated in Argentina, began organizing peasant strikes in Cuzco. About four years later Blanco and a small band of Indians formed a militia and engaged in guerrilla warfare in La Convención and Lares provinces near Cuzco. On Christmas day 1962, thirty peasants and five policemen died in a clash. The government formally charged Hugo Blanco for the deaths. In May 1963 troops consisting of Guardia Civil and Peruvian Investigative Police (PIP) encountered Hugo Blanco and his militia group. Fortunately for Blanco, a PIP officer discovered him first as the Guardia Civil officer had orders to assassinate him. The government held Blanco for three years before judging and sentencing him to twenty-years in prison. The Velasco government exiled Blanco in 1971. He published Land or Death the following year. In late 1992, Hugo Blanco was in Mexico recovering from a brain hematoma. (Hugo Blanco, Land or Death and various other sources.)
I read this book while researching the politics of Peru in the 1960ýs for a novel I am writing. Unless you have a similar interest in these peasant uprisings from the point of view of a Trotskyite fomenting revolution, or Blancoýs candid appraisal as to why revolution failed, or insight into the mind of a Communist revolutionary, do not waste your time with this book. It is poorly written, or badly translated, or both, and the Communist rhetoric is tedious.
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